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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (758713)12/19/2013 10:29:04 PM
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Better than any other large nation in the world.

The US is third in population with about 317 million.

Using 2012 IMF GDP PPP estimates only Qatar (ranked 144th with a bit over 2 million people), Luxembourg (170th 537k), Singapore (116th 5.4mil), Norway (118th, 5,1mil) and Brunei (176th, 393k), have higher purchasing power parity GDP per capita.

5 US states have more population than all of those combined.

If you toss in Switzerland (who the IMF says has lower purchasing power per capita, but other estimates such as the one you posted disagree), and the combination still has less population then either California or Texas.

Out of those countries Qatar, Norway and Brunei all have tiny to modest populations and a lot of oil wealth per capita.

Singapore and Luxumborg are essentially city states (and have less money per capita then the richest American cities).

Switzerland according the to the IMF and also according to the CIA has less per capita purchasing power. (Slightly more according to the World Bank, less if you average those three, or even any two of the three). Also its pretty small too even if bigger than all the other non American contenders.

Also of all those countries only Luxembourg and Qatar have a lot higher purchasing power.

Meanwhile every single country with more than 10 million people (according to any source I've seen) or with more than 5.4million people according to the IMF data (and Wikipedia's list of countries by population) has less purchasing power per capita then the US.

And every other country on Earth has less total purchasing power and a smaller economy in general then the US.
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