Southern Europe vs United States: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita over time
- Southern Europe
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 84,489 USD against 33,234 USD in Southern Europe, a difference of 51,255 USD.
That makes United States's figure about 2.5 times Southern Europe's.
Across all 55 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.
Southern Europe ranks 9th and United States ranks 11th of 30 groups.
United States has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Southern Europe | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3,065 USD | 7,792 USD | 4,727 USD | United States |
| 1980s | 7,287 USD | 17,274 USD | 9,986 USD | United States |
| 1990s | 15,853 USD | 28,325 USD | 12,472 USD | United States |
| 2000s | 23,428 USD | 42,668 USD | 19,240 USD | United States |
| 2010s | 26,765 USD | 55,421 USD | 28,656 USD | United States |
| 2020s | 29,500 USD | 74,774 USD | 45,274 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, Southern Europe or United States?
- United States, at 84,489 USD against 33,234 USD in Southern Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ per capita between Southern Europe and United States?
- 51,255 USD, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Southern Europe and United States?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Southern Europe and United States rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$ per capita?
- Southern Europe ranks 9th and United States ranks 11th of 30 groups.
- 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).