Countries in Africa by gdp per capita (ppp)

Countries in Africa by gdp per capita (ppp), World Bank, 2025

#	Country	Int. $ per person	Region
1	Seychelles	$35,854	Eastern Africa
2	Mauritius	$33,667	Eastern Africa
3	Gabon	$22,218	Middle Africa
4	Botswana	$20,698	Southern Africa
5	Egypt	$20,204	Northern Africa
6	Algeria	$18,586	Northern Africa
7	Libya	$16,521	Northern Africa
8	Equatorial Guinea	$16,133	Middle Africa
9	South Africa	$15,906	Southern Africa
10	Tunisia	$15,233	Northern Africa
11	Eswatini	$12,529	Southern Africa
12	Cabo Verde	$12,165	Western Africa
13	Namibia	$11,986	Southern Africa
14	Morocco	$11,112	Northern Africa
15	Angola	$10,251	Middle Africa
16	Nigeria	$9,532	Western Africa
17	Ghana	$8,610	Western Africa
18	Djibouti	$8,452	Eastern Africa
19	Côte d'Ivoire	$8,209	Western Africa
20	Mauritania	$7,676	Western Africa
21	Congo	$7,248	Middle Africa
22	Kenya	$7,016	Eastern Africa
23	Zimbabwe	$6,470	Eastern Africa
24	São Tomé and Principe	$6,388	Middle Africa
25	Cameroon	$5,788	Middle Africa
26	Senegal	$5,463	Western Africa
27	Guinea	$4,935	Western Africa
28	Benin	$4,817	Western Africa
29	Tanzania	$4,471	Eastern Africa
30	Zambia	$4,379	Eastern Africa
31	Comoros	$4,238	Eastern Africa
32	Rwanda	$4,164	Eastern Africa
33	Togo	$4,079	Western Africa
34	Sierra Leone	$3,717	Western Africa
35	Gambia	$3,706	Western Africa
36	Ethiopia	$3,622	Eastern Africa
37	Mali	$3,503	Western Africa
38	Uganda	$3,488	Eastern Africa
39	Guinea-Bissau	$3,293	Western Africa
40	Lesotho	$3,184	Southern Africa
41	Burkina Faso	$3,072	Western Africa
42	Chad	$2,903	Middle Africa
43	Sudan	$2,192	Northern Africa
44	Niger	$2,177	Western Africa
45	Liberia	$1,981	Western Africa
46	Madagascar	$1,952	Eastern Africa
47	DR Congo	$1,920	Middle Africa
48	Malawi	$1,899	Eastern Africa
49	Mozambique	$1,698	Eastern Africa
50	Somalia	$1,643	Eastern Africa
51	Central African Republic	$1,314	Middle Africa
52	Burundi	$1,248	Eastern Africa

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: Eritrea, South Sudan.

Questions

Which country in Africa has the highest GDP per capita (PPP)?

The Seychelles has the highest GDP per capita (PPP) in Africa: $35,854 a person (2025). Next come Mauritius ($33,667 a person) and Gabon ($22,218 a person).

Which country in Africa has the lowest GDP per capita (PPP)?

Burundi, with $1,248 a person (2025).

What is the typical gdp per capita (ppp) of a country in Africa?

The median of the 52 countries in Africa is $5,199 a person: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Gross domestic product per person in international dollars: converted at purchasing power parity, so a dollar buys as much everywhere and cheap countries are not made to look poorer than they live. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.