For example, per capita GDP gives an approximation of the arithmetic average income of a nation's population.

The Gross Domestic Product of Armenia stood at 8. 8 billion US dollars in 2010 ; with a population of 3. 2 million, this amounts to a GDP per capita of $ 2, 676 ( purchasing power parity $ 5, 178 ).

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

GDP ( per capita ): $ 6, 400 ( 2008 )

The per capita GDP in 2007 was by far the highest of any province in Canada at C $ 74, 825 ( approx.

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

Alberta's per capita GDP in 2007 was 61 % higher than the Canadian average of C $ 46, 441 and more than twice that of all the Maritime provinces.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

In July 2009, the minister of defense, Nelson Jobim, said that Brazil will expend about 0. 7 % ( US $ 13 billion ) of the GDP per year to modernize the forces in addition to the 2. 6 % yearly defense budget.

According to the CIA World factbook, in 2004 the Territory had the 12th highest GDP per capita in the world.

Bulgaria's per-capita PPP GDP is still only about a half of the EU27 average, while the country's nominal GDP per capita is about 20 % of the EU27 average.

Real per capita GDP fell by more than 60 % from 1986 to 1994.

Chilean ( blue ) and average Latin American ( orange ) GDP per capita ( 1950 – 2007 ).

In 2006, Chile became the country with the highest nominal GDP per capita in Latin America.

Chile an ( blue ) and average Latin America n ( orange ) GDP per capita ( 1950-2007 ).

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

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Estimated GDP per capita in purchasing power parity ( PPP ) in 2010 was around USD 19, 754 or 63. 3 % of the EU average for the same year.

Per capita GDP is high, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production.

In 2009, Cuba ranked 51st out of 182 with an HDI of 0. 863 ; remarkably high considering its GDP per capita only places it 95th.

In the 1950s, Cuba's gross domestic product ( GDP ) per capita was roughly equal to that of contemporary Italy, and significantly higher than that of countries such as Japan, although Cuba's GDP per capita was still only a sixth as large as that of the United States.

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas ' Annual average GDP growth was 11. 1 percent.

The real GDP growth rate for 2011 was expected at 3. 7 % but had dropped to. 1 %.

GDP growth for 2010 was at 2. 9 percent, and inflation was at 8 percent.

In 2010, overall tax revenue as a percentage of GDP was 17. 2 %.

the 2007 GDP growth was driven by consumption and investment.

In 1973, Chile was in shambles – inflation was hundreds of percents, the country had no foreign reserves, and GDP was falling.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

The percent of total income earned by the richest 20 % of the Chilean population in 2000 was 61. 0 % of GDP, while the percent of total income earned by the poorest 20 % of the Chilean population was 3. 3 % of GDP.

On a consolidated basis, including Central Bank losses and parastatal enterprise profits, the public sector deficit was 2. 3 % of GDP.

Croatian GDP in 2010 was 335. 5 billion Croatian Kuna and contracted by 1. 4 % year-on-year.

During his administration, Tunisia's per capita GDP more than tripled from $ 1, 201 in 1986 to $ 3, 786 in 2008.

As of 2004, the highest GDP per capita was 573, 976 SK in the Bratislava Region, which was more than double of the national average ( 251, 814 SK ).

Paris and the Paris Region, with € 572. 4 billion in 2010, produce more than a quarter of the gross domestic product of France and is one of the largest city GDP in the world.

Brussels ' GDP per capita is much higher than either region, although this is in many ways artificial, as many of those that work in the Brussels-Capital Region live in Flanders or Wallonia.

Vienna was ranked the fifth richest NUTS-2 region within Europe ( see Economy of Europe ) with GDP reaching € 38, 632 per capita, just behind Inner London, Luxembourg, Brussels-Capital Region and Hamburg.

Being the busiest in the region and state, contributing nearly 45 % of GDP for that along with the Ciudad Lerdo, over 55 % with Laguna Region of Durango.

Benefits that are commonly quoted include: the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) today is 30 times that before 1950 ; it has 22, 500 km of highways, all built since 1950 ; all secular education in the region was created after integration into the PRC ; there are 25 scientific research institutes, all built by the PRC ; infant mortality has dropped from 43 % in 1950 to 0. 661 % in 2000 ; life expectancy has risen from 35. 5 years in 1950 to 67 in 2000 ; the collection and publishing of the traditional Epic of King Gesar, which is the longest epic poem in the world and had only been handed down orally before ; allocation of 300 million Renminbi since the 1980s to the maintenance and protection of Tibetan monasteries.

It has the second highest GDP of the Administrative Region of Bauru, and has become the central hub of a commercial micro-region that includes the municipalities of Macatuba, Areiópolis, Borebi and Pederneiras.

According to the government's official statistics for FY 2010 – 2011, the size of the economy of Yangon Region was 8. 93 trillion kyat, or 23 % of the national GDP.