Trends in international distribution of gross World products / Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. Statistical Division.

Overview, 1 -- Introduction, 3 -- I. Gross domestic product data and United States dollar conversion rates -- A. GDP and per capita GDP, 7 -- B. Conversion of local currency data to United States dollars, 9 -- 1. Market exchange rates (MERs), 11 -- 2. PAREs developed by the Statistical Division, United Nations Secretariat, 12 -- 3. World Bank Atlas conversion rates, 15 -- 4. Purchasing power parities (PPPs),16 -- II. Measures of gross world product distribution -- A. Measures of the level and distribution of gross world product and per capita gross world product, 19 -- 1. Level of gross world product, 20 -- 2. Per capita gross world product, 22 -- 3. Income distribution measures applied to distribution of gross world product, 24 -- B. Measures of inequality of gross world product distribution between regions, 39 -- 1. Gross regional product, 40 -- 2. Per capita gross regional product, 46 -- 3. Distribution of gross world product within and between regions, 53 -- Annexes. A. Detailed tables, 57 -- B. List of countries and areas by region and subregion, 334 -- C. Technical notes, 336 -- Gini index -- Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation -- Decomposition of standard deviation.