Focus Taiwan
Date; 2018/05/27
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, May 27 (CNA) Taiwan’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita based on

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purchasing power parity (PPP) ranks 19th in the world, higher than Japan and South Korea’s, according to recent data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

According to the IMF’s data, Taiwan’s purchasing power parity-based GDP is US$52,304, higher than the US$44,430 in Japan and US$41,390 in South Korean, which rank 31st and 32nd in the world, respectively.

Twice a year, the IMF releases a huge dump of data about the economic power of the world’s nations, with GDP per capita a key statistic. The IMF also ranks the world’s countries according to their GDP per capita based on PPP.
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