Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the EU and Selected World Countries per capita in U.S. Dollars at Current Prices 2009 - Source: IMF Chart Generator | Denmark Leads the Normal World in Income Equality and Happiness

We put together the following chart for internal use recently and pass it on as a potentially useful piece of information in assessing the world economic and political situation.

It is singularly remarkable that the country with the highest GDP for a "normal economy", i.e. not one based on oil or banking, is Denmark -- and that is also the country with the greatest equality of income in its population according to the Gini coefficient. The result? The Danes are also the world's happiest people.

Maybe the rest of the world has the wrong formula?

It also appears to us that the conflict in the world today is economic and not religious, based on these figures, which show a clear division of the world between the "haves" and the "have nots".

A Selected List of The GDP in US Dollars of
EU Euro-Zone and non-Euro-Zone Countries 2009
(+ EFTA and some non-European countries added for comparison)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita U.S. $$ at current prices
Source: IMF Chart Generator, as selected and reordered by LawPundit
(some columns have been deleted, some labels have been shortened
and the numbers have been rounded -- go to the IMF Chart Generator
or to this page at Wikipedia if you want original or more inclusive data)

Shaded cells indicate IMF staff estimates
Country (State)	Subject Descriptor (GDP per capita 2009, current prices)	2009 U.S. $$
Luxembourg - EU (world's #1 - via banking), Liechtenstein, not ranked by the IMF, surely has a higher GDP	GDP per capita	104,512
Norway - EFTA, EEA (oil)	GDP per capita	79,085
Qatar (oil)	GDP per capita	68,872
Switzerland - EFTA (via banking)	GDP per capita	67,560
Denmark - EU (world's best income distribution & world's happiest people)	GDP per capita	56,115
Ireland - EU	GDP per capita	51,356
Netherlands - EU	GDP per capita	48,223
United Arab Emirates (oil)	GDP per capita	46,857
United States	GDP per capita	46,381
Austria - EU	GDP per capita	45,989
Australia	GDP per capita	45,587
Finland - EU	GDP per capita	44,492
Sweden - EU	GDP per capita	43,986
Belgium - EU	GDP per capita	43,533
France - EU	GDP per capita	42,747
Germany - EU	GDP per capita	40,875
Japan	GDP per capita	39,731
Canada	GDP per capita	39,669
Iceland - EFTA, EEA	GDP per capita	37,977
Singapore	GDP per capita	37,293
Italy - EU	GDP per capita	35,435
United Kingdom - EU	GDP per capita	35,334
Spain - EU	GDP per capita	31,946
Hong Kong SAR	GDP per capita	29,826
Greece - EU	GDP per capita	29,635
Cyprus - EU	GDP per capita	29,620
Slovenia - EU	GDP per capita	24,417
New Zealand	GDP per capita	27,259
Israel	GDP per capita	26,797
Brunei Darussalam	GDP per capita	26,325
The Bahamas	GDP per capita	21,529
Portugal - EU	GDP per capita	21,408
Malta - EU	GDP per capita	19,111
Czech Republic - EU	GDP per capita	18,557
South Korea	GDP per capita	17,074
Taiwan	GDP per capita	16,392
Slovak Republic - EU	GDP per capita	16,282
Saudi Arabia	GDP per capita	14,486
Estonia - EU	GDP per capita	14,267
Croatia	GDP per capita	14,243
Hungary - EU	GDP per capita	12,927
Latvia - EU	GDP per capita	11,607
Poland - EU	GDP per capita	11,288
Lithuania - EU	GDP per capita	11,172
Turkey	GDP per capita	8,723
Russia	GDP per capita	8,694
Brazil	GDP per capita	8,220
Mexico	GDP per capita	8,135
Romania - EU	GDP per capita	7,542
Malaysia	GDP per capita	6,897
Bulgaria - EU	GDP per capita	6,223
South Africa	GDP per capita	5,824
Serbia	GDP per capita	5,809
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	GDP per capita	4,482
Iran	GDP per capita	4,460
Bosnia and Herzegovina	GDP per capita	4,279
Thailand	GDP per capita	3,940
Albania	GDP per capita	3,825
China	GDP per capita	3,678
Syria	GDP per capita	2,579
Egypt	GDP per capita	2,450
Indonesia	GDP per capita	2,329
Iraq	GDP per capita	2,108
Philippines	GDP per capita	1,746
Vietnam	GDP per capita	1,060
India	GDP per capita	1,031
Pakistan	GDP per capita	1,017
Bangladesh	GDP per capita	574
Afghanistan	GDP per capita	486