[DanBC]

Are you talking about Niger, not Nigeria? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...

Nigeria has a GDP per capita of about $6100. Have I misunderstood that page?

Not that far off some EU countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...

    Country                CIA[4] 2010 Estimation
    Moldova                1,433
    Kosovo                 1,813
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,500
    Albania                4,000
    Ukraine                4,350
    Republic of Macedonia  4,669
    Belarus                5,500

[jpatokal]

Yes, you have misunderstood: it's GDP per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP), not actual dollars. Roughly speaking, the hypothetical average Nigerian has an actual dollar income of $1000, but the spending power of somebody earning $6100 in the US.

[tboughen]

While some of those countries may be European, none are EU member states. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European...

[thaumasiotes]

I'll reproduce the URLs you're giving in full, so that the invalid comparison becomes obvious:

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita