Data · Growth & economic structure
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): Vietnam, 1990–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 18,088 USD PPP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
This indicator provides values for gross domestic product (GDP) per person expressed in current international dollars, converted by purchasing power parities (PPPs). PPPs account for the different price levels across countries and thus PPP-based comparisons of economic output are more appropriate for comparing the output of economies and the average material well-being of their inhabitants than exchange-rate based comparisons. Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This series has been linked to produce a consistent time series to counteract breaks in series over time due to changes in base years, source data and methodologies. Thus, it may not be comparable with other national accounts series in the database for historical years. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. The PPP conversion factor is a currency conversion factor and a spatial price deflator. PPPs convert different currencies to a common currency and, in the process of conversion, equalize their purchasing power by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries, thereby allowing volume or output comparisons of GDP and its expenditure components.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2025 (36 years of data). It moved from 1,210 to 18,088 USD PPP, a change of 1,395.3%. The highest value was 18,088 in 2025 and the lowest 1,210 in 1990. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (USD PPP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,088 |
| 2024 | 16,388 |
| 2023 | 15,034 |
| 2022 | 13,903 |
| 2021 | 12,049 |
| 2020 | 11,609 |
| 2019 | 11,029 |
| 2018 | 10,010 |
| 2017 | 9,170 |
| 2016 | 8,375 |
| 2015 | 7,672 |
| 2014 | 7,297 |
| 2013 | 6,758 |
| 2012 | 6,377 |
| 2011 | 5,786 |
| 2010 | 5,389 |
| 2009 | 5,061 |
| 2008 | 4,844 |
| 2007 | 4,581 |
| 2006 | 4,237 |
| 2005 | 3,894 |
| 2004 | 3,543 |
| 2003 | 3,240 |
| 2002 | 3,002 |
| 2001 | 2,809 |
| 2000 | 2,614 |
| 1999 | 2,421 |
| 1998 | 2,308 |
| 1997 | 2,189 |
| 1996 | 2,019 |
| 1995 | 1,841 |
| 1994 | 1,674 |
| 1993 | 1,534 |
| 1992 | 1,413 |
| 1991 | 1,298 |
| 1990 | 1,210 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 18,088 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 26,250 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 17,660 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 41,498 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 12,577 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 163,354 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 8,543 |
| Laos | 2025 | 10,383 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 6,012 |
| China | 2025 | 29,333 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). GDP per capita, PPP (current international $), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ny_gdp_pcap_pp_cd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.