Editing Economy of Moldova (section)

== Regional developments ==
Countries tend to benefit from sharing borders with developed markets as this facilitates trade and development. Below is a table of Moldova's neighboring countries, their GDP per capita in 1995 and 2021, and trade values between the pairs. Their evolution is distinct as Romania went from a GDP per capita which was about 1.7 times larger than that of Moldova's in 1995 to one which in 2021 is more than 2.5 times as large. Ukraine on the other hand has decreased when compared to Moldova.

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! Country
! GDP per capita,<br /> <small>PPP (current international $) 1995<ref name="data.worldbank.org">{{Cite web |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=2021&locations=RO-MD-UA&name_desc=true&start=1995 |title=GDP per capita, PPP (Current international $) - Romania, Moldova, Ukraine &#124; Data |access-date=2023-08-27 |archive-date=2023-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827135824/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=2021&locations=RO-MD-UA&name_desc=true&start=1995 |url-status=live }}</ref></small>
! GDP per capita,<br /> <small>PPP (current international $) 2021<ref name="data.worldbank.org"/></small>

|- align="right"
! align="left"|Romania
| 5,429|| 36,277

|- align="right"
! align="left"|Ukraine
| 4,136 || 14,281 
|- align="right"
! align="left"|Moldova 
| 3,145 || 15,009 
|}

The Russian Federation for comparison rose from 5,613 in 1995 to 34,043 in 2021, slightly less than Romania.