21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.
GDP per capita (current US$)
read at 2025 · 1 year old
Gross domestic product divided by midyear population, in current US dollars.
World median
7,882current US$
Countries reporting
186/ 217
Observations, all years
11.8k
The median is computed across the 186 countries reporting in 2025 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Higher is better for this indicator.
How the world is spread · 2025
186 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value
Add a country to locate it in this distribution — e.g. Pakistan
How much of the world was measured
Best year 2011 with 214 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 186. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.
· Current US$ — moves with the exchange rate as well as with output, so a currency devaluation alone can cut this figure sharply.
· An average: it says nothing about how income is distributed.
What we can actually see
Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →