Hi,

I am looking for a list of countries in the world sorted by GDP per
capita growth over the last 5-15 years.  List should be comprehensive
(all, or most of the countries in the world).  Additional data on
income distribution, population density, investment per capita,
technology/infrstructure prevalence also helpful.  Source required.

Thanks!

Hi joseph77,


   The information provided by librarygopher and jeffreytran in the
comments area is good. However, I've found a source which lists the
GDP growth rate in a tabular form (along with GDP and GDP per capita).
This information is recent (2001).

World Economic Data/Stats - 2001 (Sorted by GDP Growth Rate)
http://www.tswoam.co.uk/world_data/world_data_2001_gdp_growth.html

A sample is as follows

Country Name Population Area People Per Sq KM  GDP GDP Per Capita GDP
Growth Rate
The World 6157400560 510072000 sq km 12.07 $43600000000000 $7200 4.8%
Turkmenistan  4603244  488100 sq km  9.43  $19600000000  $4300  16%  
Yugoslavia  10677290  102350 sq km  104.32  $24200000000  $2300  15%
Iraq  23331985  437072 sq km  53.38  $57000000000  $2500  15%  
Liberia  3225837  111370 sq km  28.97  $3350000000  $1100  15%  

(Apologies if this doesn't come in an aligned fashion)


Since I'm on the subject, let me draw your attention to a website,
CountryWatch.

CountryWatch
http://www.countrywatch.com
CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific
geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.

The site has a lot of information on each country, and also a database
which provides over 200,000 data points.

I hope this answer, along with the comments of my fellow researchers,
has answered your question. If you have any clarifications, please do
ask.

Cheers,
aditya2k

good answer.  data not 100% complete and countrywatch is a for-pay
site, but still good resources.

Hi-

Hopefully this info will help someone answer the question more completely!

From the Energy Information Adminstration (part of the U.S. Department of Energy)

Table B2 World Gross Domestic Product at Market Exchange Rates, 1991-2000
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/tableb2.html

The table is also available in Excel, which you can save onto your own computer:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableb2.xls

Other useful resources from the EIA:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/other.html

-Librarygopher

Looks good librarygopher. 
The fastest way to get a complete answer would be by using another
excel worksheet from the same source
(http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableb1.xls)
with population data. These two worksheets can be easily merged, since
they contain the same country list. The division of the annual gdp
data by the annual population data will yield the GDP per capita per
country.

Percent growth is then the quotient of any two years. The countries
can then be sorted by the greatest percentage GDP per capita growth
between any two given years, as desired.

Could you be more specific, joseph77b-ga, about the data you are
looking for. Would one growth number for each country, say the growth
from 1990 to 2000 (easily found from the spreadsheets provided by
librarygopher) be sufficient? The answer is below (growth of gdp per
capita from 1990 to 2000, where 1 is no growth. Some countries
ommitted because of insufficient data).

regards,
jeffreytran

Libya	0.512667389
Sierra Leone	0.560762136
Haiti	0.768221951
Gabon	0.799003456
United Arab Emirates	0.816796134
Bulgaria	0.853929325
Romania	0.857607356
Saudi Arabia	0.891173053
Madagascar	0.929644107
Tanzania	0.931398971
Paraguay	0.931516916
Cote d'Ivoire(IvoryCoast)	0.950003429
Rwanda	0.964056699
Ecuador	0.965460425
Jamaica	0.972471631
Nigeria	0.984484981
Venezuela	0.985154443
South Africa	0.999730389
Algeria	1.01120339
Honduras	1.015057113
Switzerland	1.022556077
Oman	1.031158043
Malawi	1.037123719
Philippines	1.053636636
Morocco	1.054832545
Japan	1.055495125
Colombia	1.077466446
Qatar	1.084759984
Hungary	1.119470234
Brazil	1.122645664
Pakistan	1.125772078
Sweden	1.129423719
New Zealand	1.134738793
Iceland	1.135901041
Bolivia	1.142598126
France	1.149898906
Italy	1.153634222
Burkina Faso	1.161431553
Canada	1.176021234
Mexico	1.178086718
Austria	1.182391959
Finland	1.191642412
Turkey	1.195825174
Belgium	1.200209847
Greece	1.201703318
Guatemala	1.202773224
United Kingdom	1.203137795
Denmark	1.210251025
Benin	1.216069092
United States	1.218942966
Israel	1.231754273
Lesotho	1.23187381
Peru	1.243404173
Indonesia	1.253714455
Uruguay	1.258399244
Spain	1.260348051
Bangladesh	1.267685985
Australia	1.268155308
Hong Kong	1.283952174
Egypt	1.284865264
Costa Rica	1.296861632
Panama	1.298792278
Norway	1.304226518
Iran	1.304865566
Netherlands	1.305571527
El Salvador	1.310609668
Portugal	1.312900699
Argentina	1.317832125
Botswana	1.318143286
Tunisia	1.360988412
Thailand	1.374797835
Poland	1.418154762
Malta	1.43801835
Belize	1.445930301
Dominican Republic	1.493710591
Malaysia	1.50774025
Singapore	1.580614022
Burma	1.61320678
Chile	1.631314144
Korea, South	1.639658162
Taiwan	1.673238071
Vietnam	1.767292843
China	2.37851969

aditya2k-ga,

Very nice find on the countrywatch site -- I hadn't seen that one
before.  It went right into the Favorites folder!