I looked at the latest GDP per capita figures for 2025, and it's quite striking how the gaps are widening. Out of the 50 poorest countries in the world, the majority are in Sub-Saharan Africa, with South Sudan at the top of the list at only $251 per capita. It's crazy when you think about it.

Yemen follows at $417, then Burundi at $490. If you look at the full list, you see that the poorest countries in Africa really dominate this ranking - DRC, Niger, Somalia, Nigeria, all at the lower end. Even Senegal or Kenya, which are relatively more developed compared to others, stay around $1,800 to $2,400 per capita.

What intrigues me is that some Asian countries like Myanmar, Nepal, and Bangladesh are also in this group of the poorest. It shows that poverty is truly not a single geographic issue - it's more complex than that. Structural economic challenges are everywhere, but clearly more concentrated in Africa according to these data.