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South Carolina Annual Personal Income Per Capita, 1950-1999
In Current Dollars for the Years Shown
Compared with Georgia, North Carolina, and the United States
Data and source notes are below graph.

For a version of this graph that controls for inflation, see
South Carolina Annual Personal Income Per Capita
as a Percent of US Annual Personal Income Per Capita, 1950-1999

 
Annual Per Capita Personal Income Data and State Ranks, 1950-1999
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1999

South Carolina
   Rank		 $ 925
47		 1,437
48		 3,064
47		 7,794
48		 16,050
39		 23,545
38

Georgia
   Rank		 $ 1,065
43		 1,698
41		 3,394
37		 8,474
37		 17,738
29		 27,340
22

North Carolina
   Rank		 $ 1,077
42		 1,629
44		 3,285
39		 8,247
42		 17,367
34		 26,003
31

United States $ 1,510 2,276 4,095 10,183 19,584 28,542

Important Notes

  1. The above income data were obtained from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis's State Personal Income Web site. The data were downloaded on February 27, 2001. They had been updated on September 12, 2000.

  2. The Bureau of Economic Analysis' personal income figures are higher than the money income data produced by the US Census Bureau because money income includes only income that is received by individuals in cash and its equivalents ... whereas personal income includes imputed income, lump-sum payments not received as part of earnings, certain in-kind transfer payments such as medicaid, medicare, and food stamps, and employer contributions to private health and pension funds.

    For example, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports South Carolina's per capita personal income for 1979 and 1989 as $6,920 and $14,180 ... while the Census Bureau reports per capita money income as $5,886 and $11,897 for these same two years.

    For more information about the differences between personal and money income, please see Alternative Measures of Household Income, published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

  3. The US figures and state rankings for all six years include all 50 states but not the District of Columbia. For comparability purposes, Alaska and Hawaii are included in the 1950 data, even though they were not states at the time.
Data Sources

Data for these tables were obtained from the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site at: http://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/stateaction.cfm?fips=45000&yearin=2005

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