For the World Bank, Argentina becomes a high-income country again

Argentina was again clbadified as a high-income country in a World Bank report (BM) corresponding to 2017. It is the second occasion in which the agency gives this qualification to our country . The first took place in 2014, but then fell into the category of high average incomes.

The measure corresponds to last year, but it is likely that after the economic recession that affects the level of GDP and the devaluation of this Indeed, according to the World Bank report, the Argentina had an average per capita income of $ 14,402 in December of last year. while Switzerland, the richest country, averaged $ 80,000 a year.

In this ranking, the agency badigns four categories to the world's economies: high income, high income, low income, and low income. per capita GDP calculated using the Atlas method. The units of measure are the dollar and the countries considered as high income are those with a per capita GDP of US $ 12,056 or more

Argentina is only surpbaded by Uruguay, which has per capita income of US $. It is higher in Chile with US $ 14,346, Brazil at US $ 9.82, Peru at US $ 6,571, Paraguay at US $ 4,365 and Bolivia at US $ 3,394 of annual individual income. [19659004] In the high-income category of the 2017 ranking, among countries with per capita incomes above $ 12,000, Panama entered for the first time and returned to Croatia, which had dropped 39, last year. Other countries have aggravated their position in Syria, Tajikistan and Yemen, which have gone from below downward.

The economies with the highest per capita income, after Switzerland, are Norway with US $ 75,504, Luxembourg with US $ 70,260, Qatar with US $ 61,670, the United States with 58,270 US $, Ireland with $ 55,290, Denmark: $ 55,220, Singapore: $ 54,530 and Sweden: $ 52,590 of annual individual income.