Economics, 3rd Edition

gross domestic product per capita (head)

 the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in 

a given period of time divided by the population of a country to give a per capita figure

Moving  away  from the prosperous economies of Western Europe, we begin to see differences in 

income and living standards around the world that are quite staggering. For example, average income 

in Yemen  was 

$1,361 whilst in Afghanistan average income is just over a half a per cent of the size of 

per-capita income in Norway.