GDP per capita means you take a big number (total value of all goods) and divide by the number of people.
Median income means you look at everyone’s income and then pinpoint the income where half of all people are above it and half are below it. There’s no division here.
So, of course they’re different.
You should look up what a median is. It’s not a division average. And income isn’t GDP. Steve Job’s salary was $1 per year, that’s “income” which is totally different than the value of all the country’s production.
There are two reasons for this.
First, GDP and income are different things. Gross Domestic Product is the value of products and services produced in a country. Income is the income people get. There’s gap between the ‘sale’ value of production and people’s income as a result of things like money saved and invested by corporations and governments, going overseas and so-on.
Second, one is a mean and the other a median. If you worked out the mean income it would be higher than the median. That’s because the lower 50% of incomes range from $0-31,000, but the upper 50% go from $31,000 to tens of millions of dollars, or even more.
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