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Aeolus451 said:

Top Ten RIchest countries 2015

10. France
 9.  Uk
 8.  Indonesia
 7.  Brazil
 6.  Russia
 5.  Germany
 4.  Japan
 3.  India
 2.  United States
 1.  China

Source 

If China is poor then what does that make the rest of us?

Using the purchasing power parity (PPP) metric is flawed ... 

A much more realistic way to measure wealth is to compare a country's nominal GDP and China still has quite a ways to go before it can match the US on that front ...

Plus China has a high population to nominal GDP ratio so that further reduces the citizens income power ...