The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the world's poorest country in terms of GDP per capita. Tuvalu is the world's poorest country in terms of GDP.
The poorest country has been prooven to be East Timor with 500$ per capita.
According to the list of countries sorted by their GDP per capita, made by: The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the CIA factbook, It is a country called Burundi.
The poorest country in the world is Bangladesh.
HaitiActually, according to "TheRichest.org", the poorest country entirely in the northern hemisphere is Liberia, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo straddles the equator and is the poorest in the world.Liberia's GDP Per Capita: $456 (As of 2011), second poorest in the world;Haiti's GDP Per Capita: $1,235 (As of 2011), 19th poorest.
No, Haiti wasn't the poorest country, but was definitely having economic troubles. Haiti has always had a low GDP and GDP per capita, but a moderate GDP growth rate and a considerably low debt rate.
Tuvalu is the world's poorest country in terms of gross domestic product.
It depends on how you measure 'poor'. It is commonly based on GDP per capita, and 2008 figures give Democratic Republic of Congo as the answer (IMF figures) or Burundi (World Bank figures). The World bank figures placed DRC last, but they did not include Zimbabwe in their list, had they done so, DRC would have also been the second poorest.
According to Global Finance magazine, Democratic Republic of Congo is the poorest country in not only the third world but also in the entire world. It has a per capita income of only 698 US dollars.
The world's richest country is the United States while the poorest is Tuvalu is the poorest.
Laos and Belarus use only paper money. Laos is one of the poorest countries in the world with only $1 in circulation per capita.
Yes, it is one of the poorest countries. it is the second poorest country in the world.