Can you name the African countries with per capita GDP above the African average of US$3,966? by citkeane

Can you name the African countries with per capita GDP above the African average of US$3,966?

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Figures are Gross Domestic Product at Purchasing Power Parity per capita as published by the International Monetary Fund for 2010.
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Rank	Country	GDP (PPP) per capita (US$)
1st		23,308
2nd		18,209
3rd		15,180
4th		15,072
5th		14,194

Rank	Country	GDP (PPP) per capita (US$)
6th		13,846
7th		10,518
8th		9,454
9th		6,966
10th		6,935

Rank	Country	GDP (PPP) per capita (US$)
11th		6,417
12th		5,749
13th		5,156
14th		4,794
15th		4,426

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African Countries with GDP above the African Average Quiz

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Created Jan 2, 2012 in Geography
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	carbon_rod:	Jan 2nd, 2012 at 14:30 GMT	1 point
	Accept Rep Congo for Republic of Congo.

	citkeane:	Jan 2nd, 2012 at 15:31 GMT	2 points
	@carbon_rod, Okay.

	recklessness:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 10:02 GMT	2 points
	If countries like Libya or Equatorial Guinea are above African average, I can't even imagine how is it to live in the countries below average.

	pienet:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 10:46 GMT	2 points
	@recklessness: GDP per capita is hardly a good measure of general well-being. It says nothing about the redistribution of wealth within the country.

	isildur:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 15:06 GMT	1 point
	I was surprised Equatorial Guinea and Gabon were co-hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, but with these stats it's easier to see why.

	Pemster:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 16:08 GMT	2 points
	Equatorial Guinea and Gabon both have small populations and lots of oil; most of that wealth doesn't get redistributed, but there is at least some wealth there. Angola has the same thing, but more people. I cannot imagine how Swaziland got on here, though. Mswati is worth about 5 billion according to most estimates, but the vast majority of the country is in conditions as bad as any other country in the region.

	indianwolf1992:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 03:46 GMT	1 point
	@Pemster: the problem with GDP per capita is that it is an average, not a median. So GDP per capita does not necessarily tell you how much an average person earns, because it is skewed high by even a tiny super-rich elite. In a small country like Swaziland, a single ultra-rich leader, along with his family and cronies, can make the GDP per capita look very high without the peoples' lives being too good at all.

	koopa08:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 15:22 GMT	1 point
	Well, there's always GNP, which is usually a better indicator of people's wealth, and possibly well-being.

	Bretzky:	Jan 30th, 2012 at 02:28 GMT	2 points
	The surprise for me was that Ghana did not make the list. Ghana and Botswana are generally the two countries that are put forward as the ideal multiparty, democratic, post-colonial African states.

	Bretzky:	Jan 30th, 2012 at 02:32 GMT	2 points
	@koopa08: Not really. The difference between GDP and GNP is that GDP measures all income within the economy while GNP measures all the income owned by the economy (that is, it includes income earned in foreign states and excludes income earned in the economy by foreigners). It still doesn't, however, tell you how well distributed that income is within the economy. As measures of median income, both GDP and GNP are deeply flawed.