Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in Ethiopia: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we examine the statistics of human lives to understand the material reality of our shared world. For Ethiopia, average yearly economic output per person, adjusted for purchasing power, tells a stark story of endurance. In the 2020s, income per person (gdp per capita, ppp) in Ethiopia stands at 2,300 intl-$ — ranking #157 of 157 countries. Every single value recorded here is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there across three centuries.

The historical arc of this measure reveals a slow, steady progression through the decades. In the 1800s estimate, the figure stood at 517.11 intl-$, climbing gradually through the 1810s estimate, 1820s estimate, 1830s estimate, 1840s estimate, 1850s estimate, 1860s estimate, 1870s estimate, 1880s estimate, and 1890s estimate. By 1900 it was 648.42 intl-$, continuing upward through the 1900s estimate, 1910s estimate, 1920s estimate, 1930s estimate, 1940s estimate, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, before dipping slightly in the 1990s and 2000s, and rising again through the 2010s to reach the present day.

If you were born in Ethiopia across these eras, your economic context was defined by these exact trajectories, with future projections extending through the 2030s projection, 2040s projection, 2050s projection, 2060s projection, 2070s projection, 2080s projection, 2090s projection, and 2100s projection. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →