The best measure is not overall GDP growth, but the growth of income per head of the working age population (not per capita).

So, for example, China and India achieved significant GDP per capita growth.

Growth was fastest from 1870 1890, followed by large fluctuations in output. A fairly low rate of population growth ensured a modest annual rise in per capita income of about 0.7 during this period.

A fairly low rate of population growth ensured a modest annual rise in per capita income of about 0.7 during this period.

Year Per Capita Income

In contrast, over the same period, the cumulative increase was 1.6 times for urban residents per capita disposable income and 1.2 times for rural peasants per capita income.

The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster than ever before.

Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil. Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China a country with only one thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!

Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China a country with only one thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!

A growing proportion of the population will now be of working age, and a smaller population will be children. This should boost India's per capita income

So here's GDP per person in America.

There are many circumstances in which a nation s GNP (per capita) increases even while its wealth (per capita) declines.

Total energy use is soaring, reflecting the combined effect of rising per capita incomes and thus rising per capita energy use and population growth.

Carbon dioxide emission, metric ton per capita.

In sub Saharan Africa, both GNP per capita and wealth per capita have declined.

It turns out even during the Cultural Revolution, China out perfomed India in terms of GDP growth by an average of about 2.2 percent every year in terms of per capita GDP.

Historically, a big exporter of people, per inhabitant, has been Ireland.

per capita income 2.6 0.7 0.3 1.5 4.5

Income per person. I can put that here.

The main pier caved in and fell into the water.

The burden of debt per capita is 30,300 euros.

(e) A low per capita income adjustment of 80 per cent, with the threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national product of all Member States for the statistical base periods

(e) A low per capita income adjustment of 80 per cent, with a threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national income of all Member States for the statistical base periods

While Germany grew by only 14 in the ten years from 1995 to 2005, ranking as Europe s vice laggard next to Italy, France grew by 23.6 , which was nearly the old EU countries average of 24.3 .

In 2001, France s gross national income per capita overtook that of Germany, and is now 4 higher.

Why do governments all focus on increasing per capita national income?

Compared to the advanced countries, the developing world now has both low per capita incomes and low per capita levels of carbon emissions.

There was a steady increase in population.

There was a steady increase in population.

There was a steady increase in population.

Of course, Norway has the world s highest per capita income.

The number of Internet users are going up like this. This is the GDP per capita.

Peacekeeping scale levels based on average per capita gross national product (PCGNP) of all Member States

During the last decade, Egypt's average annual per capita income grew by 2.6 .

Despite the eight fold increase in aid per head to the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1960 and 2007, real GDP per head decreased by two thirds in the same period.

Its per capita GDP is only half that of Brazil.

Per capita GDP, too, has fallen below the euro zone average.

Hence, their real per capita incomes are lower relative to other countries.

Collective goods like fire and police protection are allocated on a per capita basis.

To be sure, measured by official exchange rates, China is the world s fourth largest economy, and it is growing at 10 annually.

But China s income per capita is only 4 that of the US.

Only 40 of the population has access to electricity with a per capita availability of 136 kWh per Annum.

This was already happening before the Great Recession, so generating full time jobs that pay decent wages was becoming ever more difficult.

So economic growth the rise in real incomes slows.

Starting from similar levels a half century ago, South Korea has grown to become one of the world s most prosperous economies, with nearly 50 million people enjoying a per capita income of 30,000 (at purchasing price parity).