Iceland vs United States: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita over time
- Iceland
- United States
How they compare
Iceland currently reports 84,718 USD against 84,489 USD in United States, a difference of 229 USD.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was United States ahead.
Iceland ranks 10th and United States ranks 11th of 228 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Iceland averaged higher in 2 and United States in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Iceland | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7,018 USD | 7,792 USD | 774.12 USD | United States |
| 1980s | 16,541 USD | 17,274 USD | 732.24 USD | United States |
| 1990s | 27,245 USD | 28,325 USD | 1,080 USD | United States |
| 2000s | 46,210 USD | 42,668 USD | 3,542 USD | Iceland |
| 2010s | 57,096 USD | 55,421 USD | 1,676 USD | Iceland |
| 2020s | 73,897 USD | 74,774 USD | 876.72 USD | United States |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$ per capita, Iceland or United States?
- Iceland, at 84,718 USD against 84,489 USD in United States as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ per capita between Iceland and United States?
- 229 USD, with Iceland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and United States?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Iceland and United States rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$ per capita?
- Iceland ranks 10th and United States ranks 11th of 228 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).