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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
It's hper capita (monthly), including people who have income and who don't. Of course, many people don't feel confortable to disclosure their real income to the Census person.
The US GDP per capita is on US$ 50,000. Brazilian, US$ 11,000. Gap between the average income must be similar.
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US GDP is $17 trillion with a population of about 320 million, so per-capita GDP is about $53,125 in current dollars. The US doesn't commonly report actual per-capita income, preferring to report either per-capita (counting only working-aged persons), or median household income so it's a little hard to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison.
In 2013 there were 218 million people reporting income with a mean income of US$41,319. So I guess based on a total population of 318 million (in 2014) there was a total per-capita income of somewhere around $28,325. That's 53% of the per-capita GDP number.
If the Brazilian per-capita GDP is US$11,000 and the per-capita income is only US$2,700, then the income as a percent of per-capita GDP is only about 25%. That's a much larger gap than in the U.S. Two possible explanations for that is if Brazil has a lot of state-owned enterprises where the revenue goes directly to the state instead of to individuals, and if the household size were bigger in Brazil (indicating more children). And, indeed, Brazil does have a larger household size than the U.S., about 3.5 versus about 2.6 for the U.S.
In the neighborhood I reported on for Chicago, the "Near North" neighborhood, the average household size is about 1.5, so a median household income of a bit over $76,000 translates into a *median* per-capita income of just over $50,000 per person, however since "median" hides the effect of people with really high incomes, the true *mean* per-capita income is probably significantly higher because there are many individuals in the area with income well into the six figures and even seven figures, which would pull the actual per-capita income well above $50,000. For example, in my condo association, our average household size is about the typical 1.5 per unit, however based on an educated, but conservative guess of what each of the owners likely earns based on their age and occupation I would guess that for my condo association the *mean* income per resident is somewhere around $100,000, and could possibly be as high as $130,000 or even more.