Can national income figures be used to make comparisons of standard of living among countries?
National income measures the Gross Domestic Product of country and therefore can be used to make economic comparisons among countries.
1. Care needs to be taken in using such raw data to make standard of living (SoL) comparisons. National income figures first require adjusting.
2. Gross Domestic Product only acquires the economic dimension of human well-being. Countries along with identical per capita $PPP may experience extensively different.