Five Richest Countries by Continent

Having poverty and having the lowest income per capita is not the same unfortunately. The average can be high(er) when there are several people with tons of money while the rest of the population hardly has anything.

It's also a very small country. Nigeria has more oil than Equatorial Guinea, but a much larger population so per capita it's not as wealthy.

I learned this week (from jetpunk) that Dublin lies on the rover Liffey ;)

There goes another two minutes.

It's the opposite on the Five Poorest Countries by Continent quiz. The 5 poorest in South America are the richest amongst the poorest from all the other continents.

There aren't that many countries in South America and they all tend to hover around the middle in terms of income. None that are exceptionally wealthy and none that are exceptionally poor.

They blow every island nation tax hole out of the water.

Delusional person believes that the Catholic Church is relevant money-wise with the likes of the oil industry

I'm pretty sure Tupelo, Mississippi has more total money than Lagos.

Monaco is a tax evasion heaven. I live close to it and I can tell you it's a really weird place with 5 star hotel skyscrapers populated by Russian millionaires.

If you look quickly it seemed like you wrote Thank heavens! Instead of tax havens.

they got that lucky charms money

Lots of pots of gold to be found, just follow the rainbow (but beware of the leprechauns.. )

Astute observation.

Its territory is formed by two main islands (Trinidad and Tobago) and several islets. Although the islands are a geological extension of South America (northeast of Venezuela), the country belongs to Central America.

why has this not been debated with an intensity that at least comes close to cyprus? Nobody cares? Come people, a point to argue about.. free of charge!

"PPP" is the most obvious culprit and should *never* be used when comparing the relative size of different countries' economies. But also I think the data here is based on GDP... the "income" of the entire country... not income as most people usually think of it which is the paycheck people are taking home. Often, having a high per capita GDP equates to having a wealthy populace; but not always. For that you might want to look at average wages or average wealth among citizens... and, depending on how you calculate the above, sometimes using PPP for that actually would make some sense. Some. Not a lot. It really only makes *good* sense when you are looking at things like the average wages of poor people or hourly minimum wage. Really falls apart when looking at the entire wealth of a nation and then comparing it to other nations.

Nice

$65,000 by 2027? It's been two years, they already managed to hit $80,100! Good on them, hope they can develop and make good use of the money.

the gdp of Guyana is skyrocketing due to oil discoveries, it is currently the fastest growing economy in the world. please note that GDP per capita does not reflect average income. Guyana has a very high poverty rate.

In Europe.

..you do know that more than a third of Monacan citizens are millionaires, right?

Per capita, not in total.

It's now 2024 and they rank 11th. Not too far.