what is the world s total gdp per capita 
according to the world bank the total world s gdp per capita was 17 500 in 2022 with 8 billion people in the world in 2022 that amounts to a total global gdp of around 139 trillion 7the bottom lineper capita is a way of averaging values on a per person basis to better understand how each individual shares in aggregated figures in economics gdp and income per capita are used to understand a country s average level of prosperity and for making like comparisons across countries you can also use per capita measures of noneconomic data such as alcohol consumption per capita or car crashes per capita 