European GDP Per Capita In 1990

The map above shows estimated nominal GDP per capita in European countries in 1990 $ based on data from the CIA.

It’s interesting to see the divergence since then as Ireland has gone from poorer than many communist countries to being one of the richest countries in Europe.

Here is the full list of all countries in the world:

Country (or dependent territory)	GDP per capita 1990
Bermuda	$23,000
United States	$21,082
Canada	$19,600
Norway	$17,900
Switzerland	$17,800
Luxembourg	$17,200
Qatar	$17,070
Iceland	$16,200
Sweden	$15,700
Japan	$15,600
Germany	$15,300
Finland	$15,000
France	$14,600
Denmark	$14,300
United Kingdom	$14,300
Australia	$14,300
Italy	$14,000
Faroe Islands	$14,000
Netherlands	$13,900
Belgium	$13,700
Austria	$13,600
United Arab Emirates	$11,680
New Zealand	$11,600
Kuwait	$10,500
Singapore	$10,300
Spain	$10,100
Aruba	$10,000
Hong Kong	$10,000
Nauru	$10,000
Cayman Islands	$10,000
Bahamas	$9,875
East Germany	$9,679
Brunei	$9,600
Soviet Union	$9,211
Northern Mariana Islands	$9,170
U.S. Virgin Islands	$9,030
Greenland	$9,000
British Virgin Islands	$8,900
Ireland	$8,900
Israel	$8,700
Czechoslovakia	$7,878
Guam	$7,675
Isle of Man	$7,573
Bahrain	$7,550
Portugal	$6,900
French Polynesia	$6,400
Macau	$6,300
Hungary	$6,108
Cyprus	$6,100
Oman	$6,006
Taiwan	$6,000
New Caledonia	$5,810
Bulgaria	$5,710
Greece	$5,605
Puerto Rico	$5,574
Antigua and Barbuda	$5,550
Netherlands	$5,500
Yugoslavia	$5,464
Libya	$5,410
Barbados	$5,250
American Samoa	$5,210
Malta	$5,100
Turks and Caicos Islands	$5,000
Saudi Arabia	$4,720
South Korea	$4,600
Poland	$4,565
Gibraltar	$4,450
Réunion	$4,290
Montserrat	$3,780
Seychelles	$3,720
Martinique	$3,650
Romania	$3,445
Anguilla	$3,350
Guadeloupe	$3,300
Saint Kitts and Nevis	$3,240
French Guiana	$3,230
Suriname	$3,215
Gabon	$3,200
Trinidad and Tobago	$3,070
Uruguay	$2,950
Venezuela	$2,700
Brazil	$2,500
South Africa	$2,380
Malaysia	$2,270
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands	$2,260
Algeria	$2,235
Argentina	$2,217
Cook Islands	$2,200
Mexico	$2,165
Cuba	$2,000
Chile	$1,970
Paraguay	$1,970
Iraq	$1,940
Mauritius	$1,910
Iran	$1,800
Jordan	$1,760
Fiji	$1,750
Panama	$1,648
Costa Rica	$1,630
Botswana	$1,600
Syria	$1,540
Grenada	$1,535
Jamaica	$1,529
Micronesia	$1,500
Marshall Islands	$1,500
Dominica	$1,408
Turkey	$1,350
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	$1,305
Belize	$1,285
Saint Lucia	$1,258
Namibia	$1,245
North Korea	$1,240
Albania	$1,200
Guatemala	$1,185
Thailand	$1,160
Colombia	$1,110
Tunisia	$1,105
Djibouti	$1,070
El Salvador	$1,020
Congo	$1,000
Niue	$1,000
Palestine	$1,000
Cameroon	$955
Ecuador	$935
Ivory Coast	$900
Papua New Guinea	$890
Honduras	$890
Morocco	$880
Mongolia	$880
Peru	$880
Tonga	$850
Vanuatu	$820
Yemen Arab Republic	$820
Tokelau	$800
Dominican Republic	$790
Swaziland	$750
Egypt	$700
Lebanon	$700
Senegal	$680
Maldives	$670
Bolivia	$660
Gaza Strip	$650
Philippines	$625
Western Samoa	$615
Angola	$600
Tuvalu	$530
Zambia	$530
Mauritania	$520
Kiribati	$500
Solomon Islands	$500
South Yemen	$495
Cape Verde	$494
Wallis and Futuna	$484
Comoros	$475
Nicaragua	$470
Zimbabwe	$470
Central African Republic	$453
Indonesia	$430
Guyana	$420
Pakistan	$409
Togo	$405
India	$400
Ghana	$400
Liberia	$395
Haiti	$380
China	$370
Sri Lanka	$370
Kenya	$360
Guinea	$350
São Tomé and Príncipe	$340
Sudan	$340
Benin	$335
Niger	$330
Rwanda	$325
Uganda	$300
Equatorial Guinea	$293
Burma	$280
Nigeria	$270
Burundi	$255
Gambia	$250
Sierra Leone	$250
Lesotho	$245
Tanzania	$235
Mali	$220
Vietnam	$215
Somalia	$210
Afghanistan	$200
Bhutan	$199
Zaire	$195
Chad	$190
Malawi	$180
Bangladesh	$180
Burkina Faso	$170
Guinea-Bissau	$160
Nepal	$158
Madagascar	$155
Laos	$150
Cambodia	$130
Ethiopia	$130
Mozambique	$110