How Rich Is the United States?

GDP isn’t a perfect way to measure an economy’s scope, and neither is GDP per capita. But it does measure how much economic value there is being produced in an economy on a per person basis, which makes it the best reflection we have of how “rich” or “poor” a country is. Here are the GDP’s per capita, adjusted for purchasing power (PPP—a metric reflecting the actual amount of goods/services a unit of currency can purchase):

(Unit is international dollars, which is a PPP measure roughly equivalent to the U.S. dollar. Source is the International Monetary Fund’s October estimates for the year 2020. List includes the forty largest economies in the world, Puerto Rico, and the ten most populous countries in the world. It appears some countries are not on the IMF list, such as Liechtenstein.)