Using the latest 2025 IMF estimates, North America reveals a fascinating split-screen when it comes to GDP per capita (PPP): towering continental economies on one side, and nimble Caribbean and Central American states on the other, each prospering in very different ways.

At the top sits the United States, whose huge, innovation-driven marketplace still translates into the region’s highest living-standard figure, about $89,100 per person. Canada follows, leveraging abundant natural resources, advanced services, and a technology sector that punches above its population weight, to notch roughly $65,700. Yet the surprise storyline lies farther south. Panama’s role as the Western Hemisphere’s shipping toll-booth and financial conduit lifts it to third place, while tourism-centric island nations such as The Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago parlay strategic geography, offshore banking, and energy exports into per-capita incomes that rival parts of Western Europe.

In 2025, the richest countries in North America are the United States, Canada, and Panama, with GDP/Capita (PPP) of $89,105, $65,707, and $43,840, respectively. The ten leaders profiled below illustrate how a mix of geography, policy choices, and sectoral specialization can propel economies, large or small, to the very top of the regional wealth table in 2025.

10 Richest Countries In North America