Economic Statistical Data

Indicators on income and economic activity

Country or area		Per Capita GDP (US$)		Adult (15+) economic activity rate
	Year				Total	Men	Women
Afghanistan	2006	319			65	88	40
Albania	2006	2,929			59	70	49
Algeria	2006	3,476			59	80	37
Andorra	2006	44,962			...	...	...
Angola	2006	2,855			82	92	74
Anguilla	2006	16,183			...	...	...
Antigua and Barbuda	2006	11,437			…	…	…
Argentina	2006	5,528			65	76	54
Armenia	2006	2,128			53	60	48
Aruba	2006	22,934			…	…	…
Australia	2006	37,924			63	70	56
Austria	2006	38,635			58	66	50
Azerbaijan	2006	2,362			67	73	61
Bahamas	2006	18,965			67	71	64
Bahrain	2006	21,747			64	87	29
Bangladesh	2006	437			70	86	52
Barbados	2006	11,765			72	79	65
Belarus	2006	3,792			58	64	53
Belgium	2006	37,651			52	60	44
Belize	2006	4,320			63	83	44
Benin	2006	536			70	86	54
Bermuda	2006	80,676			…	…	…
Bhutan	2006	1,422			66	81	49
Bolivia	2006	1,101			74	84	63
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006	2,885			63	68	59
Botswana	2006	4,755			58	70	46
Brazil	2006	5,640			68	79	57
British Virgin Islands	2006	46,407			…	…	…
Brunei Darussalam	2006	30,058			62	79	44
Bulgaria	2006	3,956			46	52	40
Burkina Faso	2006	416			83	89	78
Burundi	2006	114			93	93	92
Cambodia	2006	453			77	80	75
Cameroon	2006	1,019			66	80	52
Canada	2006	39,004			66	72	61
Cape Verde	2006	2,153			54	76	34
Cayman Islands	2006	52,707			…	…	…
Central African Republic	2006	333			80	89	71
Chad	2006	634			72	78	66
Chile	2006	8,857			53	70	37
China	2006	2,055			75	82	69
Colombia	2006	2,874			71	81	62
Comoros	2006	486			72	87	58
Congo	2006	1,946			72	88	57
Congo, Democratic Republic of	2006	136			76	91	61
Cook Islands	2006	13,005			…	…	…
Costa Rica	2006	5,034			64	81	46
Côte d'Ivoire	2006	952			64	89	39
Croatia	2006	9,271			52	60	45
Cuba	2006	4,650			59	73	44
Cyprus	2006	23,774			62	70	54
Czech Republic	2006	13,863			59	67	52
Denmark	2006	51,074			64	69	59
Djibouti	2006	925			68	83	53
Dominica	2006	4,667			…	…	…
Dominican Republic	2006	3,286			64	82	47
Ecuador	2006	3,097			72	82	61
Egypt	2006	1,484			47	73	20
El Salvador	2006	2,714			61	75	48
Equatorial Guinea	2006	19,166			71	91	51
Eritrea	2006	249			74	90	58
Estonia	2006	12,007			58	65	52
Ethiopia	2006	164			80	89	71
Fiji	2006	3,724			66	80	52
Finland	2006	39,853			61	66	57
France	2006	35,375			55	61	48
French Guiana	2006	…			68	72	64
French Polynesia	2006	21,766			60	72	47
Gabon	2006	7,245			73	83	62
Gambia	2006	307			73	86	59
Georgia	2006	1,746			62	76	49
Germany	2006	34,955			58	65	51
Ghana	2006	532			73	75	70
Greece	2006	27,679			54	65	44
Greenland	2006	28,670			…	…	…
Grenada	2006	4,167			…	…	…
Guadeloupe	2006	…			64	70	60
Guam	2006	…			66	79	52
Guatemala	2006	2,335			57	83	34
Guinea	2006	311			84	87	80
Guinea-Bissau	2006	196			77	93	61
Guyana	2006	1,219			63	82	43
Haiti	2006	489			70	84	56
Honduras	2006	1,335			72	89	55
Hong Kong SAR of China	2006	26,575			62	70	54
Hungary	2006	11,134			49	58	42
Iceland	2006	52,413			76	82	71
India	2006	784			59	82	34
Indonesia	2006	1,592			68	85	51
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2006	3,446			57	74	40
Iraq	2006	1,647			49	78	20
Ireland	2006	51,665			63	72	54
Israel	2006	20,601			55	59	51
Italy	2006	31,440			49	61	38
Jamaica	2006	3,823			64	74	54
Japan	2006	34,661			60	73	48
Jordan	2006	2,502			53	77	28
Kazakhstan	2006	5,043			71	76	66
Kenya	2006	650			79	90	70
Kiribati	2006	801			…	…	…
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	2006	509			63	78	48
Korea, Republic of	2006	18,164			62	74	50
Kosovo	2006	1,402			…	…	…
Kuwait	2006	36,396			72	85	50
Kyrgyzstan	2006	536			65	74	55
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2006	599			67	80	54
Latvia	2006	8,781			56	64	49
Lebanon	2006	5,441			56	80	34
Lesotho	2006	725			58	74	46
Liberia	2006	192			69	83	55
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2006	8,348			59	82	35
Liechtenstein	2006	102,605			…	…	…
Lithuania	2006	8,592			57	64	52
Luxembourg	2006	87,829			54	64	45
Macao SAR of China	2006	29,931			68	75	62
Madagascar	2006	287			83	86	79
Malawi	2006	164			88	90	86
Malaysia	2006	5,704			64	81	47
Maldives	2006	3,020			61	72	50
Mali	2006	498			77	82	72
Malta	2006	14,612			52	69	36
Marshall Islands	2006	2,204			…	…	…
Martinique	2006	…			60	64	56
Mauritania	2006	899			69	84	54
Mauritius	2006	5,124			61	79	43
Mexico	2006	7,875			59	80	40
Micronesia (Federated States of)	2006	2,212			…	…	…
Monaco	2006	35,375			…	…	…
Mongolia	2006	1,076			68	82	54
Montenegro	2006	3,745			…	…	…
Montserrat	2006	7,967			…	…	…
Morocco	2006	2,087			53	80	27
Mozambique	2006	349			84	83	85
Myanmar	2006	281			77	86	68
Namibia	2006	3,084			54	63	47
Nauru	2006	5,474			…	…	…
Nepal	2006	290			64	78	50
Netherlands	2006	40,535			64	73	57
Netherlands Antilles	2006	17,750			60	70	52
New Caledonia	2006	19,935			57	70	43
New Zealand	2006	25,603			67	74	61
Nicaragua	2006	971			61	86	36
Niger	2006	247			83	95	71
Nigeria	2006	917			65	85	46
Norway	2006	71,525			68	73	64
Occupied Palestinian Territory	2006	1,090			…	…	…
Oman	2006	14,135			57	81	24
Pakistan	2006	913			59	83	33
Palau	2006	7,698			…	…	…
Panama	2006	5,205			65	79	52
Papua New Guinea	2006	989			73	75	72
Paraguay	2006	1,514			74	84	65
Peru	2006	3,264			71	82	60
Philippines	2006	1,356			69	83	56
Poland	2006	8,801			54	61	47
Portugal	2006	18,129			63	70	56
Puerto Rico	2006	22,863			48	59	38
Qatar	2006	64,193			74	89	37
Republic of Moldova	2006	876			60	68	54
Réunion	2006	…			49	60	39
Romania	2006	5,647			56	62	50
Russian Federation	2006	6,877			61	68	55
Rwanda	2006	242			81	84	80
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2006	9,776			…	…	…
Saint Lucia	2006	5,723			67	80	55
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2006	3,749			68	80	55
Samoa	2006	2,348			59	77	39
San Marino	2006	46,083			…	…	…
Sao Tome and Principe	2006	480			52	75	29
Saudi Arabia	2006	15,045			54	80	18
Senegal	2006	768			68	81	56
Serbia	2006	4,828			60	70	51
Seychelles	2006	8,209			…	…	…
Sierra Leone	2006	318			75	94	56
Singapore	2006	30,159			63	76	50
Slovakia	2006	10,221			60	68	52
Slovenia	2006	18,443			60	67	54
Solomon Islands	2006	860			69	82	54
Somalia	2006	283			77	95	59
South Africa	2006	5,133			62	79	46
Spain	2006	27,913			56	67	45
Sri Lanka	2006	1,425			55	76	35
Sudan	2006	934			47	71	24
Suriname	2006	3,998			49	65	34
Swaziland	2006	2,399			52	75	32
Sweden	2006	42,170			63	67	59
Switzerland	2006	50,247			68	75	61
Syrian Arab Republic	2006	1,614			64	88	39
Tajikistan	2006	424			54	62	46
United Republic of Tanzania: Mainland	2006	335			88	90	86
TFYR of Macedonia	2006	3,096			53	65	41
Thailand	2006	3,251			73	81	66
Timor-Leste	2006	319			70	83	56
Togo	2006	356			70	90	50
Tonga	2006	2,328			59	73	45
Trinidad and Tobago	2006	13,661			62	77	47
Tunisia	2006	3,003			52	75	29
Turkey	2006	5,307			52	76	28
Turkmenistan	2006	1,327			67	73	61
Turks and Caicos Islands	2006	25,811			…	…	…
Tuvalu	2006	2,441			…	…	…
Uganda	2006	346			83	86	80
Ukraine	2006	2,287			56	64	50
United Arab Emirates	2006	42,890			78	93	41
United Kingdom	2006	39,207			62	69	55
United States	2006	43,562			66	73	60
United States Virgin Islands	2006	…			61	70	53
Uruguay	2006	5,796			67	78	57
Uzbekistan	2006	598			65	73	57
Vanuatu	2006	1,635			84	88	80
Venezuela	2006	6,633			71	84	59
Vietnam	2006	673			75	78	72
West Bank and Gaza Strip	2006	…			39	66	10
Yemen	2006	853			53	75	30
Zambia	2006	938			78	91	66
Zanzibar	2006	329			…	…	…
Zimbabwe	2006	133			74	85	64

Technical note :

Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in US dollars is calculated by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Secretariat primarily from official national accounts statistics in national currencies provided by national statistical services. GDP is the total unduplicated output of economic goods and services produced within a country as measured in monetary terms according to the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA).

The exchange rates used for the conversion of national currency data into US dollars are the average market rates as published by the International Monetary Fund in the International Financial Statistics. Official exchange rates were used only when a free market rate was not available. For non-members of the Fund, the conversion rates used are the average of the United Nations operational rates of exchange. For international comparison, currency exchange rates applied to national accounts aggregates provide an important but highly approximate measure of national economic output and may differ substantially from comparisons based on actual purchasing power.

Adult economic activity rate refers to the percentage of the population aged 15 and over, unless otherwise specified, which is economically active. Data are compiled by the International Labour Office from a variety of national sources including labour force sample surveys, household surveys, population censuses and official estimates provided by national statistical services to ILO in publications and questionnaires.

The statistical concept of economically active population used here is that recommended by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians in 1982 and is designed to be consistent with the concept of economic production in the System of National Accounts. It defines as economically active all employed and unemployed persons, including those seeking work for the first time. It covers employers operating unincorporated enterprises, persons working on their own account, employees, unpaid contributing family workers, members of producers cooperatives and members of the armed forces. In the internationally recommended definition, production of primary products such as foodstuffs for own consumption and certain other non-monetary activities are considered economic activity and persons engaged in such production are to be considered economically active. In principle, any such work for as little as one hour a week is taken to define a person as economically active.

Specific elements of the standard concept of economically active population may differ substantially from country to country, such as the choice of time-reference period and the determination of minimum hours of work and unpaid family work, including production for own consumption. These differences may result, in particular, in the undercounting of women who are economically active. Also, in most countries the statistics of the economically active population relate only to employed and unemployed persons above a specified age while in some there is no such age provision in the definition of economic activity.

source : http://unstats.un.org/UNSD/Demographic/products/socind/inc-eco.htm


Literacy Rate:

Country or area	Year		Adult (15+) literacy rate				Youth (15-24) literacy rate
			Total	Men	Women		Total	Men	Women
Afghanistan	2000		28	43	13		34	51	18
Albania	2001		99	99	98		99	99	99
Algeria	2002		70	80	60		90	94	86
Angola	2001		67	83	54		72	84	63
Argentina	2001		97	97	97		99	99	99
Armenia	2001		99	100	99		100	100	100
Aruba	2000		97	98	97		99	99	99
Azerbaijan	1999		99	99	98		100	100	100
Bahrain	2001		87	89	84		97	97	97
Bangladesh	2001		47	54	41		64	67	60
Belarus	1999		100	100	99		100	100	100
Benin	2002		35	48	23		45	59	33
Bolivia	2001		87	93	81		97	99	96
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2000		97	99	94		100	100	100
Botswana	2003		81	80	82		94	92	96
Brazil	2004		89	88	89		97	96	98
Brunei Darussalam	2001		93	95	90		99	99	99
Bulgaria	2001		98	99	98		98	98	98
Burkina Faso	2005		24	31	17		33	40	26
Burundi	2000		59	67	52		73	77	70
Cambodia	2004		74	85	64		83	88	79
Cameroon	2001		68	77	60		…	…	…
Cape Verde	2004	a	81	88	76		96	96	97
Central African Republic	2000		49	65	33		59	70	47
Chad	2000		26	41	13		38	56	23
Chile	2002		96	96	96		99	99	99
China	2000		91	95	87		99	99	99
Colombia	2005		93	93	93		98	98	98
Congo	2004	a	85	91	79		97	98	97
Cook Islands	1996	c	...	...	...		93	...	...
Costa Rica	2000		95	95	95		98	97	98
Côte d'Ivoire	2000		49	61	39		61	71	52
Croatia	2001		98	99	97		100	100	100
Cuba	2002		100	100	100		100	100	100
Cyprus	2001		97	99	95		100	100	100
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2001		67	81	54		70	78	63
Dominican Republic	2002		87	87	87		94	93	95
Ecuador	2001		91	92	90		96	96	96
Egypt	2005		71	83	59		85	90	79
El Salvador	2004	a	81	82	79		88	87	90
Equatorial Guinea	2000		87	93	80		95	95	95
Estonia	2000		100	100	100		100	100	100
Ethiopia	2004		36	50	23		50	62	39
Fiji	1996	c	...	...	...		93	...	...
Gabon	2004	a	84	88	80		96	97	95
Ghana	2000		58	66	50		71	76	65
Greece	2001		96	98	94		99	99	99
Guatemala	2002		69	75	63		82	86	78
Guinea	2003		29	43	18		47	59	34
Honduras	2001		80	80	80		89	87	91
India	2001		61	73	48		76	84	68
Indonesia	2004		90	94	87		99	99	99
Iran, Islamic Republic of	2005		82	88	77		97	98	97
Iraq	2000		74	84	64		85	89	80
Italy	2001		98	99	98		100	100	100
Jamaica	1999		80	74	86		…	…	…
Jordan	2005		91	95	87		99	99	99
Kazakhstan	1999		100	100	99		100	100	100
Kenya	2000		74	78	70		80	80	81
Kiribati	1990	c	...	...	...		92	...	...
Kuwait	2005		93	94	91		100	100	100
Kyrgyzstan	1999		99	99	98		100	100	100
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2001		69	77	61		78	83	75
Latvia	2000		100	100	100		100	100	100
Lesotho	2001		82	74	90		…	…	…
Liberia	2004	a	52	58	46		67	65	69
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2004	a	84	93	75		98	100	96
Lithuania	2001		100	100	100		100	100	100
Macao, China	2001		91	95	88		100	99	100
Madagascar	2000		71	77	65		70	73	68
Malaysia	2000		89	92	85		97	97	97
Maldives	2000		96	96	96		98	98	98
Mali	2003		24	33	16		…	…	…
Marshall Islands	1989	c	...	...	...		74	...	...
Mauritania	2000		51	60	43		61	68	55
Mauritius	2000		84	88	81		95	94	95
Mexico	2005		92	93	90		…	98	98
Micronesia (Federated States of)	1994	c	...	...	...		71	...	...
Mongolia	2000		98	98	98		98	97	98
Montenegro	2002	b	96	99	94		99	99	99
Morocco	2004		52	66	40		70	81	60
Myanmar	2000		90	94	86		95	96	93
Namibia	2001		85	87	83		92	91	93
Nepal	2001		49	63	35		70	81	60
Netherlands Antilles	2004	a	96	96	96		…	98	98
Nicaragua	2001		77	77	77		…	84	89
Niger	2005		29	43	15		37	52	23
Nigeria	2004	a	69	78	60		84	87	81
Niue	2001	c	...	...	...		95	...	...
Oman	2003		81	87	74		97	98	97
Pakistan	2005		50	64	35		65	77	53
Palau	1995	c	...	...	...		91	...	...
Palestinian Autonomous Territories	2004		92	97	88		99	99	99
Panama	2000		92	93	91		96	97	96
Papua New Guinea	2000		57	63	51		67	69	64
Paraguay	2004	a	93	94	93		96	96	96
Peru	2005		88	94	82		97	98	96
Philippines	2003		93	92	94		95	94	97
Portugal	2004	a	94	96	92		100	100	100
Qatar	2004		89	89	89		96	95	98
Republic of Moldova	2004	a	99	100	99		100	100	100
Romania	2002		97	98	96		98	98	98
Russian Federation	2002		99	100	99		100	100	100
Rwanda	2000		65	71	60		78	79	77
Samoa	2004	a	99	99	98		99	99	99
Sao Tome and Principe	2001		85	92	78		95	96	95
Saudi Arabia	2004		83	88	76		96	97	95
Senegal	2002		39	51	29		49	58	41
Serbia	2002	b	96	99	94		99	99	99
Seychelles	2002		92	91	92		99	99	99
Sierra Leone	2004		35	47	24		48	60	37
Slovenia	2004	a	100	100	100		100	100	100
Solomon Islands	1991	c	...	...	...		62	...	...
Sri Lanka	2001		91	92	89		96	95	96
Sudan	2000		61	71	52		77	85	71
Suriname	2004		90	92	87		95	96	94
Swaziland	2000		80	81	78		88	87	90
Syrian Arab Republic	2004		81	88	74		92	95	90
Tajikistan	2000		99	100	99		100	100	100
Thailand	2000		93	95	91		98	98	98
The former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia	2002		96	98	94		99	99	98
Togo	2000		53	69	38		74	84	64
Tokelau	2003	c	...	...	...		87	...	...
Tonga	1996	c	...	...	...		99	...	...
Trinidad and Tobago	2004	a	98	99	98		99	99	99
Tunisia	2004		74	83	65		94	96	92
Turkey	2004		87	95	80		96	98	93
Tuvalu	1991	c	...	...	...		95	...	...
Uganda	2002		67	77	58		77	83	71
Ukraine	2001		99	100	99		100	100	100
United Arab Emirates	2004	a	89	89	88		97	98	95
United Republic of Tanzania	2002		69	78	62		78	81	76
Vanuatu	1999		74	…	…		…	…	…
Venezuela	2001		93	93	93		97	96	98
Viet Nam	1999		90	94	87		94	94	94
Yemen	2004	a	54	73	35		75	91	59
Zambia	1999		68	76	60		69	73	66
Zimbabwe	2004	a	89	93	86		98	97	98

Technical Notes:

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines a literate person as someone who can both read and write with understanding, a short, simple statement on his or her everyday life. A person who can only read but not write, or can write but not read is considered to be illiterate. A person who can only write figures, his or her name or a memorized ritual phrase is also not considered literate.

This definition of literacy is widely used in national population censuses and surveys but its interpretation and application may vary to some extent among countries, depending on national, social and cultural circumstances. Furthermore, this concept of literacy includes persons who, though familiar with the basics of reading and writing, might still be considered functionally illiterate.

For many countries or areas, literacy rates are not available for one or more of the following reasons: (a) illiteracy is believed to have been reduced to minimal levels through several decades of universal primary education, (b) it has not been possible to establish revised estimates following recent mass literacy campaigns, (c) not even a minimal database is available for making rough estimates, or (d) countries have preferred that no estimate be published.

Source : http://unstats.un.org/UNSD/Demographic/products/socind/literacy.htm


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