During the early 1970s, North Korea's economy stagnated, with GDP per capita flatlining until Kim Il Sung's death.
Iceland is in the top 10 of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries for GDP per capita, but until recently that growth has been stoked by expansionary monetary policy, easy credit and aluminum-related investments.
The trend becomes even clearer; output per capita rises steadily until the mid-1990s, trendsrendownwardard for more than a decade.
This transformation allowed for a sustained boom in growth of GDP per capita that lasted until the mid-20th century.
The Global Investment Framework for Women's and Children's Health states that an increase in health expenditure for maternal and newborn health at the country level of US$55 per capita per year until 2035 could result in a nine- fold returns on overall economic and social benefits [ 19].
If India follows the trends of other developing nations, this hyper-materialistic streak is set to continue until per capita income reaches global middle class levels, when hunger for growth is replaced by a desire for social security and complacence.
If you look at South Korea, it wasn't until per capita incomes reached about $15,000 per year that you started to see a big shift in the types of goods and services being consumed.
Japan has graduated more than twice as many engineers per capita as the United States, and until recently, U.S. professional labor costs have been far higher than Japan's.
Under the progressive convergence principle, other countries would be allowed to increase their emissions until their per capita emissions equalled that of the G8 bloc, and thereafter be required to mirror the declining per capita emissions of the G8 bloc.
China's chief negotiator to the Doha climate change conference, Xie Zhenhua, told Xinhua that the country's greenhouse gas emissions – which rose 171% between 2000 and 2011, and by just under 10% last year alone – would continue to rise until its per capita GDP had reached $20,000 to $25,000.
