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| | NationMaster - Statistics > GDP > PPP by country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | GDP is the aggregate used most frequently to represent the economic size of countries and, on a per capita basis, the economic well-being of their residents. |
 | | Per capita GDP of the richest 10 percent of Chinese population - those living in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and part of Guangdong, which, as a whole, is roughly equivalent to Japan in terms of population size - came to $2,077, whereas per capita GDP in Shanghai alone was $3,706. |
 | | GDP per capita is the most commonly used indicator of the living standard within a country, although it is, of course, a measure of the average income of a country. |
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