I call bullshit
Ireland is really #1 and always will be. Why? Because its capital is always Dublin. /lame joke
Macao (have they renamed Macau?) and Hong Kong aren’t countries. They are money laundering points for Red China.
Surprised Monaco ($256,580 per capita GDP) and Liechtenstein ($186,400 per capita GDP) didn’t make the list.
“However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it doesn’t account for income distribution, quality of life metrics, or how sustainable the economy is.”
...or how much DEBT the country has, and what is happening with that debt (as in budget deficits). Nor does GNP exclude useless or counterproductive ‘production’ - such as shutting down the Keystone Pipeline when all the materials have been produced, wasting $2 Billion on two bridges in Texas because we just had to use a DEI engineering firm (true story), or electrifying cars, and main battle tanks, for that matter.
All the nations with higher per capita GDP are very small nations, and that fact is a sock in the eye for the other large economically developed nations.
I wonder how much higher the US would be if you backed out 40 million illegals from the population number. Is my math correct at 13.8%?
EC