Survey mean consumption or income per capita, total population (2011 PPP $ per day) - Country Ranking - South America

Definition: Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of total population.

Source: World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) circa 2011-2016 (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Uruguay 26.63 2019
2 Chile 25.97 2020
3 Brazil 20.39 2019
4 Argentina 16.14 2020
5 Paraguay 15.67 2020
6 Bolivia 13.69 2020
7 Colombia 12.11 2020
8 Ecuador 12.08 2020
9 Peru 10.80 2020

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Limitations and Exceptions: Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.

Unit of Measure: 2011 PPP $

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in PovcalNet. The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per