Nigeria and several other African countries feature prominently among the world’s 60 poorest countries in a 2026 ranking by Global Finance magazine, based on GDP per capita at purchasing power parity.
Burundi ranked as the country with the lowest GDP per capita in the ranking, at $994.23, followed by the Central African Republic with $1,437.72 and South Sudan with $1,467.19.
The figures are based on GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, a measure that adjusts for differences in the cost of living and inflation across countries.
Nine of the 10 countries at the bottom of the ranking are in Africa, with Yemen the only non-African country among them.
The 10 lowest-ranked countries were Burundi, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Yemen, Mozambique, Malawi, Somalia, Liberia, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
