What is the poorest country in the world?

Question

What is the poorest country in the world?

Answer 1

I found the same as "tiger lover"

Answer 2

In terms of GDP (total income)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...

In terms of per capita income, it is probably Zimbawe at the moment, but there is no way of compiling statistics for it.  Burundi in cental africa, would probably be the next poorest. There is a list of estimated incomes here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...

In terms of national debt, it must be the U.S.A. The U.S.A. has a national debt of about $7.0 TRILLION dollars

http://web.whittier.edu/jmiller/Misc/Uni...

Because of the influence war and corrupt regimes, some countries income can change very quickly.  Most poor coutries are reliant on foreign aid.

Answer 3

Depends on what criteria they take (i.e. the state as a whole or the buying power of a person in that country) but it's normally accepted as being Malawi in Africa.

Often things are confused by talking about money rather than whether the people have a means of feeding themselves.

For the bottom 20 or so it is basically immaterial - when you're starving it doesn't really make any difference.

Answer 4

1 Malawi $ 600

2 Somalia $ 600

3 Comoros $ 600

4 Solomon Islands $ 600

5 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700

6 Burundi $ 700

7 East Timor $ 800

8 Tanzania $ 800

9 Afghanistan $ 800

10 Yemen