As population grows, gdp per capita decreases if the economy does not grow accordingly.
not exactly true,the gdp or (GWEE DEE PEE like the China PRCs says) is just a fictional number.....technically it means the economic output of the country or its total wealth generated.singapore can increase its economic output and total wealth by asking foreign companies to come set up business in our country,but why would they want to do that?by promising to let them hire cheaper better faster and paying their workers peanuts and letting them keep majority of the profits.and also by keeping the corporate taxes low at 17 percent.this in turns attracts tons of companies to our country and generate tons of economic activity,but the truth is the average human being on this island earn very little and have incomes that are way below the so called gdp per capita benchmark.
what country in the world do u have a gdp per capital of nearly $70,000 per annual, third highest in the world and u have construction workers earning $400 a month,cleaners earning $800 a month and $6 an hour factory workers and cashiers,bus drivers earning $1200 a month and people working 44 hours a week for $1400?only in singapore.this entire country is just one big slave factory sweat shop.if our incomes were anywhere correlated to the gdp and gdp per capita,the average singaporean would be earning anywhere from $4000 per month to $6000 per month