Poorest Countries by GDP per Capita (2026)

Burundi has the lowest GDP per capita at just $219. These countries face significant economic challenges including limited infrastructure, political instability, and restricted access to global markets.

#1

Burundi

$219

#2

Afghanistan

$414

#3

Central African Republic

$516

Poorest Countries by GDP per Capita - 213 countries ranked by GDP/Capita

Rank	Country	GDP/Capita	Population	Region
1	Burundi	$219	12,332,788	Africa
2	Afghanistan	$414	43,844,000	Asia
3	Central African Republic	$516	6,470,307	Africa
4	Malawi	$523	20,734,262	Africa
5	Madagascar	$545	31,727,042	Africa
6	Somalia	$630	19,655,000	Africa
7	Yemen	$634	32,684,503	Asia
8	DR Congo	$649	112,832,000	Africa
9	Mozambique	$657	34,090,466	Africa
10	Eritrea	$689	3,607,000	Africa
11	Niger	$735	26,312,034	Africa
12	Sierra Leone	$807	9,077,691	Africa
13	Liberia	$852	5,248,621	Africa
14	Gambia	$871	2,422,712	Africa
15	Chad	$962	19,340,757	Africa
16	Lesotho	$972	2,116,427	Africa
17	Burkina Faso	$982	24,070,553	Africa
18	Sudan	$985	51,662,000	Africa
19	Rwanda	$1,000	14,104,969	Africa
20	Guinea-Bissau	$1,008	1,781,308	Africa
21	Syria	$1,052	25,620,000	Asia
22	Uganda	$1,078	45,905,417	Africa
23	South Sudan	$1,080	15,786,898	Africa
24	Nigeria	$1,084	223,800,000	Africa
25	Mali	$1,095	22,395,489	Africa
26	Togo	$1,119	8,095,498	Africa
27	Ethiopia	$1,134	111,652,998	Africa
28	Tanzania	$1,187	68,153,004	Africa
29	Zambia	$1,187	19,693,423	Africa
30	Timor-Leste	$1,332	1,391,221	Asia
31	Tajikistan	$1,341	10,499,000	Asia
32	Myanmar	$1,359	51,316,756	Asia
33	Nepal	$1,447	29,911,840	Asia
34	Pakistan	$1,479	241,499,431	Asia
35	Benin	$1,485	13,224,860	Africa
36	Comoros	$1,663	919,901	Africa
37	Guinea	$1,695	14,363,931	Africa
38	Senegal	$1,773	18,593,258	Africa
39	Cameroon	$1,830	29,442,327	Africa
40	Solomon Islands	$1,934	750,325	Oceania
41	Mauritania	$2,110	4,927,532	Africa
42	Laos	$2,124	7,647,000	Asia
43	Kenya	$2,132	53,330,978	Africa
44	Haiti	$2,143	11,867,032	Americas
45	Kiribati	$2,289	120,740	Oceania
46	Ghana	$2,391	33,742,380	Africa
47	Kyrgyzstan	$2,420	7,281,800	Asia
48	Republic of the Congo	$2,482	6,142,180	Africa
49	Zimbabwe	$2,497	17,073,087	Africa
50	Palestine	$2,592	5,483,450	Asia
51	Bangladesh	$2,593	169,828,911	Asia
52	Cambodia	$2,628	17,577,760	Asia
53	Angola	$2,666	36,170,961	Africa
54	India	$2,695	1,417,492,000	Asia
55	Ivory Coast	$2,728	31,719,275	Africa
56	Nicaragua	$2,848	6,803,886	Americas
57	Papua New Guinea	$3,007	11,781,559	Oceania
58	Uzbekistan	$3,162	37,859,698	Asia
59	Egypt	$3,338	107,271,260	Africa
60	Vanuatu	$3,411	321,409	Oceania
61	Honduras	$3,426	9,892,632	Americas
62	Lebanon	$3,478	5,490,000	Asia
63	São Tomé and Príncipe	$3,491	209,607	Africa
64	Djibouti	$3,553	1,066,809	Africa
65	Bhutan	$3,831	784,043	Asia
66	Eswatini	$3,910	1,235,549	Africa
67	Philippines	$3,985	114,123,600	Asia
68	Morocco	$4,153	36,828,330	Africa
69	Micronesia	$4,166	105,564	Oceania
70	Tunisia	$4,181	11,972,169	Africa
71	Venezuela	$4,218	28,517,000	Americas
72	Namibia	$4,413	3,022,401	Africa
73	Bolivia	$4,421	11,365,333	Americas
74	Sri Lanka	$4,516	21,763,170	Asia
75	Jordan	$4,618	11,734,000	Asia
76	Vietnam	$4,717	101,343,800	Asia
77	Indonesia	$4,925	284,438,782	Asia
78	Iran	$5,190	85,961,000	Asia
79	Cape Verde	$5,192	491,233	Africa
80	Ukraine	$5,389	32,862,000	Europe
81	Samoa	$5,393	205,557	Oceania
82	El Salvador	$5,580	6,029,976	Americas
83	Tonga	$5,652	100,179	Oceania
84	Algeria	$5,753	47,400,000	Africa
85	Iraq	$6,074	46,118,793	Asia
86	Guatemala	$6,150	18,079,810	Americas
87	South Africa	$6,267	63,100,945	Africa
88	Tuvalu	$6,345	10,643	Oceania
89	Paraguay	$6,416	6,109,644	Americas
90	Fiji	$6,426	900,869	Oceania
91	Libya	$6,569	7,459,000	Africa
92	Equatorial Guinea	$6,745	1,668,768	Africa
93	Mongolia	$6,751	3,544,835	Asia
94	Turkmenistan	$6,857	7,057,841	Asia
95	Ecuador	$6,875	18,103,660	Americas
96	Suriname	$6,962	616,500	Americas
97	Kosovo	$7,023	1,585,566	Europe
98	Azerbaijan	$7,284	10,241,722	Asia
99	Thailand	$7,347	65,859,640	Asia
100	Moldova	$7,576	2,749,076	Europe
101	Belize	$7,681	417,634	Americas
102	Botswana	$7,696	2,359,609	Africa
103	Marshall Islands	$7,726	42,418	Oceania
104	Jamaica	$7,754	2,825,544	Americas
105	Colombia	$7,919	53,057,212	Americas
106	Gabon	$8,230	2,469,296	Africa
107	Belarus	$8,318	9,109,280	Europe
108	Peru	$8,452	34,350,244	Americas
109	Armenia	$8,556	3,076,200	Asia
110	Georgia	$9,241	4,000,921	Asia
111	North Macedonia	$9,292	1,822,612	Europe
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina	$9,359	3,422,000	Europe
113	Cuba	$9,605	9,748,007	Americas
114	Brazil	$10,311	213,421,037	Americas
115	Dominica	$10,405	67,408	Americas
116	Dominican Republic	$10,876	10,771,504	Americas
117	Albania	$11,378	2,363,314	Europe
118	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	$11,501	110,872	Americas
119	Grenada	$11,705	109,021	Americas
120	Malaysia	$11,874	34,231,700	Asia
121	Mauritius	$11,991	1,243,741	Africa
122	Montenegro	$13,263	623,327	Europe
123	China	$13,303	1,408,280,000	Asia
124	Maldives	$13,379	515,132	Asia
125	Nauru	$13,609	11,680	Oceania
126	Serbia	$13,679	6,567,783	Europe
127	Argentina	$13,970	46,735,004	Americas
128	Kazakhstan	$14,155	20,426,568	Asia
129	Saint Lucia	$14,182	184,100	Americas
130	Mexico	$14,186	130,575,786	Americas
131	Russia	$14,889	146,028,325	Europe
132	Palau	$15,611	16,733	Oceania
133	Turkey	$15,893	85,664,944	Asia
134	Chile	$16,710	20,206,953	Americas
135	Bulgaria	$17,596	6,437,360	Europe
136	Seychelles	$17,859	122,729	Africa
137	American Samoa	$18,017	49,710	Oceania
138	Costa Rica	$18,587	5,309,625	Americas
139	Trinidad and Tobago	$18,733	1,367,764	Americas
140	Panama	$19,161	4,064,780	Americas
141	Romania	$20,080	19,036,031	Europe
142	Oman	$20,285	5,343,630	Asia
143	Saint Martin	$21,668	31,496	Americas
144	French Polynesia	$22,440	279,500	Oceania
145	Curaçao	$22,833	156,115	Americas
146	Hungary	$23,292	9,539,502	Europe
147	Latvia	$23,409	1,829,000	Europe
148	Antigua and Barbuda	$23,542	103,603	Americas
149	Northern Mariana Islands	$23,786	47,329	Oceania
150	Uruguay	$23,907	3,499,451	Americas
151	Saint Kitts and Nevis	$23,961	51,320	Americas
152	Croatia	$24,050	3,866,233	Europe
153	Greece	$24,626	10,400,720	Europe
154	Poland	$25,104	37,392,000	Europe
155	Slovakia	$25,993	5,413,813	Europe
156	Barbados	$26,545	267,800	Americas
157	New Caledonia	$29,213	264,596	Oceania
158	Portugal	$29,292	10,749,635	Europe
159	Lithuania	$29,384	2,894,886	Europe
160	Bahrain	$29,654	1,594,654	Asia
161	Guyana	$29,675	772,975	Americas
162	Estonia	$31,428	1,369,995	Europe
163	Czechia	$31,823	10,882,341	Europe
164	Japan	$32,487	123,210,000	Asia
165	Kuwait	$32,718	4,881,254	Asia
166	Brunei	$33,153	455,500	Asia
167	Slovenia	$34,301	2,130,638	Europe
168	Saudi Arabia	$35,122	35,300,280	Asia
169	Spain	$35,327	49,315,949	Europe
170	South Korea	$36,239	51,159,889	Asia
171	Turks and Caicos Islands	$37,507	50,828	Americas
172	Cyprus	$38,674	1,442,614	Europe
173	Puerto Rico	$39,344	3,203,295	Americas
174	Bahamas	$39,455	398,165	Americas
175	Aruba	$39,499	107,566	Americas
176	Italy	$40,385	58,927,633	Europe
177	Sint Maarten	$41,473	41,349	Americas
178	Guam	$41,833	153,836	Oceania
179	Malta	$43,899	574,250	Europe
180	United States Virgin Islands	$44,321	87,146	Americas
181	France	$46,103	66,351,959	Europe
182	New Zealand	$49,205	5,324,700	Oceania
183	Andorra	$49,304	88,406	Europe
184	United Arab Emirates	$50,274	11,294,243	Asia
185	Finland	$53,150	5,650,325	Europe
186	United Kingdom	$53,246	69,281,437	Europe
187	Hong Kong	$54,075	7,527,500	Asia
188	Israel	$54,177	10,134,800	Asia
189	Canada	$54,340	41,651,653	Americas
190	Germany	$56,104	83,491,249	Europe
191	Belgium	$56,615	11,825,551	Europe
192	Sweden	$57,117	10,605,098	Europe
193	Austria	$58,269	9,200,931	Europe
194	Greenland	$58,499	56,542	Americas
195	San Marino	$59,880	34,132	Europe
196	Australia	$64,604	27,536,874	Oceania
197	Netherlands	$67,520	18,100,436	Europe
198	Denmark	$71,026	6,011,488	Europe
199	Macau	$72,005	685,900	Asia
200	Faroe Islands	$74,120	54,885	Europe
201	Qatar	$76,689	3,173,024	Asia
202	United States	$84,534	340,110,988	Americas
203	Iceland	$86,041	391,810	Europe
204	Norway	$86,785	5,606,944	Europe
205	Isle of Man	$88,329	84,530	Europe
206	Singapore	$90,674	6,110,200	Asia
207	Cayman Islands	$99,144	84,738	Americas
208	Switzerland	$103,998	9,082,848	Europe
209	Ireland	$112,895	5,458,600	Europe
210	Luxembourg	$137,782	681,973	Europe
211	Bermuda	$142,855	64,055	Americas
212	Liechtenstein	$206,781	40,900	Europe
213	Monaco	$288,001	38,423	Europe