IControlThePast
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Comrade said:What I linked was not a GNP measurement nor a PPP adjusted GDP.
I'd like to ask you to do the research as to why the two ranking differ by so much, because right now I'm too lazy and tired to do it, and you seem like a bright person. In fact, I'm glad to have a left leaning, intelligent person on the board to debate against.
I don't really think the CIA has different statistics than Wiki. They should both have the same nominal GDP/capita because they have about the same PPP GDP/capita statistic. For your 33rd of 225, the statistic used was the PPP GDP/capita. See the listing here is in PPP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden#Figures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
The difference in years is enough to count for the difference there. If you look here you can see the CIA used PPP for the GDP/capita:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sw.html#Econ
And for clarification, nominal GDP is the proper statistic to look at in this case. Wiki used the International Monetary Fund as its source for nominal GDP/capita, while I don't find that statistic mentioned in the CIA factbook.