According to the World Bank Development Indicators (2006), Luxembourg is the richest country in the world with a GNP or Gross National Product of 61,610 measured in international dollars.
Gross National Product or GNP is the accepted index for measuring financial success, although it doesn't indicate quality of life.
Luxembourg has a high GNP due to the fact that a high percentage of the workforce in that country actually lives in the bordering countries of France, Belgium and Germany.
Luxembourg is well placed for international trade.
According to the same source the USA takes second place with 39,820 dollars and the other top contenders are Norway and Switzerland followed by Ireland, Iceland, Austria and Denmark. The UK came in eleventh place.
The worlds richest countries have around and up to115 times more than the world's poorest countries
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