Per capita GDP is a way of measuring the average income of a country. Basically, it is the total income earned from the entire production of goods and services of a nation divided by the number of inhabitants. However, this is not a good measure to assess the population's quality of life, as it does not capture income inequalities. A country may have high GDP per capita but be very unequal if there are very rich people and a poor majority. Alternatively, a good indicator for assessing quality of life is the Human Development Index. This index takes into account the access to basic health, education, life expectancy and income of the population as a whole, being considered more efficient by economists when it comes to analyzing the standard of living compared to GDP per capita.
