Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: historical-gdp-per-capita-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	166	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	166	0
GDP per capita (2011 international $)gdp_per_capitaHeadline	The headline figure: GDP per capita (2011 international $).	Number · up to 13 decimals	596Central African Republic149,171Qatarmiddle 12,890	166	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 112 years.

Not in this dataset · 59 places this site covers

GGDC gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBelizeBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuyanaIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPapua New GuineaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSurinameTimor-LesteTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)

   rug.nl

2. 2 · Their file

   Maddison Project Database 2023 — GDP per capita, 2022

   421302

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   112 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as historical-gdp-per-capita-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/historical-gdp-per-capita

From the Maddison Project Database 2023, published by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre. Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia are left out because their successor states are included for every year. The database names the historians behind each country's figures on the Sources sheet of its workbook.

• Charted

  Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Economy & Innovation
  • Development & Human Capital

• Near neighbours

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