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by unionpivo 1844 days ago
sure in percents. But US per capita makes more money, so the actual dollars to dollars are similar.

EU GDP per capita is 46,888 US 68,309

  68000/100*27 = 18360
  47000/100*40 = 18800

Edit i took GDP from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP... 2021 estimates

I was kind of surprised by this, when I ran the numbers.

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You're using averages across all of the EU which includes both countries with a higher GDP per capita than the US and countries with lower GDP per capita.

Some of the examples I gave actually have a higher GDP per capita than the US.

Yes but most of such countries are small in population.

The biggest countries (by population): Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland

All have lover GDP.

The countries with higher GDP than US (according to wikipedia): Luxembourg (pop: 638,153 ), Ireland (pop: 5,006,061), Norway (not in EU, pop: 5,457,423), Switzerland (not EU, pop: 8,717,698)

I am sure if you just take the richest few states, they are also richer than average US