Do you know the world’s richest economies ?
I had posted earlier about the world’s top economies. One question that comes up in mind is are the words richest economies the same as the worlds top economies. To answer the question, we need to first define the criteria that would the richest economies. Several thoughts come to mind but for our discussion lets pretend that the richest economies are calculated based upon the GDP per capita.
Research indicates that the top 5 richest economies in 2000 were
Luxemborg- 50,061
US – 34,142
Norway – 29,918
Ireland – 29,866
Iceland – 29,581
Thanks Economywatch
Fast forward to 2008 and the top 5 richest economies were
Qatar – 85,868
Luxemborg – 82,306
Norway – 53,451
Singapore – 51,142
Brunei – 50,117.
Thanks Wikipedia
US was not in the top5 list for some reason but further research indicates that US was placed in the 6th position.
US – 46,859
In a span of 8 years from 2000 to 2008, the richer countries seem to be getting richer and the GDP per capita seems to have increased. However; the top 5 rich countries seem to have a different order, although 2 of the top 5 countries seem to have found a place in the list.
Comments
No Comments
Leave a reply