Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
How about a thread NOT to debate economic or political controversies, but just to display simple economic data? I'll start with a
Notes:
1. I show the average of IMF and CIA estimates. I have omitted several, mostly smallish, countries.
2. Singapore and Ireland have misleadingly high GDP. This is due to their use as corporate tax havens: corporate shenanigans inflate official GDP numbers. (Some other tax havens were "smallish" so discarded when I opted for this more manageable List of 151.)
3. Numbers for Syria, Cuba, North Korea are 6-year old CIA estimates.
4. PPP can be VERY misleading.
5. Being familiar with Thailand I conclude with some comments about its numbers.
I am effectively spending dollars in Thailand (although they are dollars left over from the 20th century) so PPP is irrelevant to my personal spending. The above table shows a 3.5 ratio between USA GDP.PPP and Thailand's. With a 100/35 PPP ratio, the non-PPP GDP per capita ratio is almost exactly 10:1.
GINI plays a role when converting GDP per capita to wage or salary estimates. Thailand's GINI was somewhat higher than USA's when I first started looking 2 or 3 decades ago, but is now less than USA's. Still the GINIs of the two countries are about the same, so 10:1 is a useful rule-of-thumb for estimating a fairly broad range of wages and salaries.
Thailand's PPP=35 becomes 100 when pricing iPads or gold bullion, 68 for Big Macs. Gasoline prices depend on subsidies and taxes; the gasoline PPP is now about 100 -- prices the same as USA. (Diesel fuel was subsidized ca 1990, a reason large pick-ups were popular!)
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita.
Have I mentioned that I think I have a slight(?) case of autism?
Flights of useless fancy?
In a recent thread someone mentioned
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita; I thought to myself "Let's understand PPP a little;" I Googled; I extracted a manageable list from said Wikipedia page.
Let me stress that this was IRRELEVANT to any points I or anyone else was making in the Political thread. I just exercised the craft of extracting awk'able data from a Wiki page, just as others might do some knitting or bite their fingernails. Extracting this data isn't quite as trivial as it might seem; I was pleased to build this list in less than a half-hour, less time than I spent on these comments.
Normally I'd just abandon the work in a folder somewhere and forget about it, but I thought "Having gone to the bother, perhaps a fellow Infidel will find the list useful." So here it is.
The Wiki page didn't show PPP, which I needed only for the comments about Thailand. I clicked and clicked at Wiki and finally found a useful PPP list at List of IMF ranked countries by GDP -- an odd title for the page with a good PPP list, but I'm used to Wikipedia being . . . odd.
Flights of useless fancy?
In a recent thread someone mentioned
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita; I thought to myself "Let's understand PPP a little;" I Googled; I extracted a manageable list from said Wikipedia page.Let me stress that this was IRRELEVANT to any points I or anyone else was making in the Political thread. I just exercised the craft of extracting awk'able data from a Wiki page, just as others might do some knitting or bite their fingernails. Extracting this data isn't quite as trivial as it might seem; I was pleased to build this list in less than a half-hour, less time than I spent on these comments.
Normally I'd just abandon the work in a folder somewhere and forget about it, but I thought "Having gone to the bother, perhaps a fellow Infidel will find the list useful." So here it is.
The Wiki page didn't show PPP, which I needed only for the comments about Thailand. I clicked and clicked at Wiki and finally found a useful PPP list at
List of IMF ranked countries by GDP -- an odd title for the page with a good PPP list, but I'm used to Wikipedia being . . . odd.Notes:
1. I show the average of IMF and CIA estimates. I have omitted several, mostly smallish, countries.
2. Singapore and Ireland have misleadingly high GDP. This is due to their use as corporate tax havens: corporate shenanigans inflate official GDP numbers. (Some other tax havens were "smallish" so discarded when I opted for this more manageable List of 151.)
3. Numbers for Syria, Cuba, North Korea are 6-year old CIA estimates.
4. PPP can be VERY misleading.
5. Being familiar with Thailand I conclude with some comments about its numbers.
- $112413 Singapore
- $110367 Ireland
- $99487 Qatar
- $76434 Switzerland
- $72186 United_Arab_Emirates
- $70864 Norway
- $68198 Brunei
- $67690 United_States
- $63093 Hong_Kong
- $62872 Denmark
- $61957 Netherlands
- $59383 Iceland
- $59290 Austria
- $57367 Germany
- $57288 Sweden
- $55446 Australia
- $55132 Belgium
- $52979 Finland
- $51863 Canada
- $50714 Kuwait
- $50051 Saudi_Arabia
- $49410 Bahrain
- $49198 European_Union
- $49100 France
- $48731 United_Kingdom
- $47937 South_Korea
- $47001 Taiwan
- $46625 New_Zealand
- $45236 Israel
- $45106 Japan
- $45031 Italy
- $43609 Czech_Republic
- $43234 Slovenia
- $41429 Lithuania
- $41375 Spain
- $40863 Estonia
- $38610 Puerto_Rico
- $37333 Poland
- $37133 Portugal
- $36566 Hungary
- $34460 Slovakia
- $34225 Oman
- $34012 Latvia
- $33579 Turkey
- $33448 Romania
- $32025 Croatia
- $31883 Greece
- $30885 Panama
- $29756 Malaysia
- $29233 Russia
- $28063 Kazakhstan
- $26093 Chile
- $25789 Bulgaria
- $24416 Uruguay
- $22887 Argentina
- $22268 Costa_Rica
- $21142 Serbia
- $20560 Dominican_Republic
- $20404 Belarus
- $20170 Mexico
- $19207 Thailand
- $18845 China
- $18216 Equatorial_Guinea
- $17599 Botswana
- $17187 Turkmenistan
- $16944 Georgia
- $16099 Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
- $16046 Colombia
- $15892 Brazil
- $15579 Albania
- $15531 Iran
- $14699 Armenia
- $14622 Libya
- $14391 Moldova
- $13979 Egypt
- $13528 South_Africa
- $13414 Paraguay
- $13365 Sri_Lanka
- $13363 Ukraine
- $13286 Peru
- $13019 Indonesia
- $12576 Kosovo
- $12555 Mongolia
- $12300 Cuba
- $12012 Algeria
- $11988 Bhutan
- $11531 Ecuador
- $11488 Lebanon
- $11465 Dominica
- $11095 Tunisia
- $10887 Jordan
- $10854 Iraq
- $10637 Vietnam
- $9338 El_Salvador
- $9172 Philippines
- $9165 Guatemala
- $8916 Bolivia
- $8483 Laos
- $8354 Morocco
- $7406 Venezuela
- $7196 India
- $6827 Angola
- $6392 Bangladesh
- $6227 Nicaragua
- $6040 Ghana
- $5962 Mauritania
- $5934 Honduras
- $5877 Palestine
- $5798 Ivory_Coast
- $5631 Pakistan
- $5392 Nigeria
- $5235 Kyrgyzstan
- $5161 Kenya
- $4891 Cambodia
- $4665 Myanmar
- $4637 Syria
- $4238 Nepal
- $4225 Sudan
- $4185 Papua_New_Guinea
- $4041 Republic_of_the_Congo
- $4009 Cameroon
- $3706 Senegal
- $3554 Zambia
- $3552 East_Timor
- $2987 Tanzania
- $2983 Haiti
- $2867 Ethiopia
- $2846 Guinea
- $2664 Lesotho
- $2627 Zimbabwe
- $2609 Uganda
- $2468 Rwanda
- $2428 Burkina_Faso
- $2404 Mali
- $2359 Togo
- $2318 Yemen
- $2228 Afghanistan
- $1839 Eritrea
- $1786 Sierra_Leone
- $1700 North_Korea
- $1645 Madagascar
- $1609 Chad
- $1544 Malawi
- $1533 Liberia
- $1328 Mozambique
- $1321 Niger
- $1267 South_Sudan
- $1214 Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
- $1061 Somalia
- $994 Central_African_Republic
- $782 Burundi
I am effectively spending dollars in Thailand (although they are dollars left over from the 20th century) so PPP is irrelevant to my personal spending. The above table shows a 3.5 ratio between USA GDP.PPP and Thailand's. With a 100/35 PPP ratio, the non-PPP GDP per capita ratio is almost exactly 10:1.
GINI plays a role when converting GDP per capita to wage or salary estimates. Thailand's GINI was somewhat higher than USA's when I first started looking 2 or 3 decades ago, but is now less than USA's. Still the GINIs of the two countries are about the same, so 10:1 is a useful rule-of-thumb for estimating a fairly broad range of wages and salaries.
Thailand's PPP=35 becomes 100 when pricing iPads or gold bullion, 68 for Big Macs. Gasoline prices depend on subsidies and taxes; the gasoline PPP is now about 100 -- prices the same as USA. (Diesel fuel was subsidized ca 1990, a reason large pick-ups were popular!)
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