There is a huge misconception in this thread about the meaning of the GDP. Gross Domestic product is the aggregation of the value of all final product (goods) , that are produced during a year, within the boundaries of country. In other words it is a measurement for the productivity of a country.
1) The first misconception is that the GDP per capita is a measurement for the average income of the country. The GDP has literally nothing to do with the income of the state, nor does the GDP per capita tells what the average person earns as an income. A simple example: A company produces cars and sells them and the annual sales are 20 Million dollars. If this is the only company of the country and the country has 1000 inhabitants, the GDP is 20 Million dollars and the GDP per capital is 20,000 dollars. So the GDP per capita is the productivity of the inhabitants per average, NOT the average income.
France has a GDP per capita of 35,100 Euro and the average income is something around 3000 Euro. Two completely unrelated things.
As a footnote
@Bohol the decentralization of Puntlands economy has no inevitable connection to a higher GDP or GDP per capita. One big company can be more productive than 1000 other small companies combined.
2) Now to the core statement of the thread: That Puntland has a higher GDP than Somaliland is impossible and doesn't make sense at all. The only produced goods of both states that matter are livestock and services, since both don't have an industry. As for livestock we all know that the Berbera port exported three times the size of Bosaaso, before the livestock ban. As for services, without any doubt, there are more services provided in Somaliland and it isn't even close at all, since Somaliland has more than two times more inhabitants. The services provided in Hargeysa and Burco alone with a combined population bigger than Puntland are even higher.
3)
MAYBE Puntland has a higher GDP per capita, but this wouldn't surprise me due to their lower population. As
@Apollo correctly pointed out, there is no reliable estimation for this.
Warya
@Teeri-Alpha come in, this is a debate for you. Correct me if i'm wrong.