Table 1

2005 GNI per capita for a Sampling of the World’s Poorest Nations

Country                

PPP

Atlas

 

Country           

PPP

Atlas

 

Country                   

PPP

Atlas

Angola

2210

1350

 

Guinea

2240

370

 

Papua New Guinea

2370

660

Bangladesh

2090

470

 

Guinea –Bissau

700

180

 

Rwanda

1320

230

Benin

1110

510

 

Haiti

1840

450

 

Senegal

1770

710

Burkina Faso

1220

400

 

Kenya

1170

530

 

Sierra Leone

780

220

Burundi

640

100

 

Kyrgyz Rep.

1870

440

 

Solomon Islands

1880

590

Cambodia

2490

380

 

Lao PDR

2020

440

 

Sudan

2000

640

Cameroon

2150

 

 

Madagascar

880

290

 

Tajikistan

1260

330

Central African Republic

1140

100

 

Malawi

650

160

 

Tanzania

730

340

Chad

1470

400

 

Mali

100

380

 

Togo

1550

350

Comoros

2000

 

 

Mauritania

2150

560

 

Uganda

1500

280

Congo, Dem. Rep

710

120

 

Moldova

2150

880

 

Uzbekistan

2020

510

Cote d’Ivoire

1490

840

 

Mozam-bique

1270

310

 

Yemen, Rep.

920

600

Eritrea

1010

220

 

Nepal

1530

270

 

Zambia

950

490

Ethiopia

1000

160

 

Niger`

800

240

 

Zimbabwe

1940

340

Gambia, The

1920

290

 

Nigeria

1040

560

 

United States

41,950

43,740

Ghana

2370

450

 

Pakistan

2240

690

 

Source:  http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GNIPC.pdf

Notes: The key difference in Atlas and PPP data is that PPP betters accounts for untraded goods--which include much of the sustenance enjoyed by the bottom end of the income distribution in middle-low and low income countries.  The World Bank describes its use of the two measures as follows: