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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1907

1907, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per capita follows each country's output per person back to 1820, in 2011 international dollars, from the Maddison Project Database. It joins economic historians' reconstructions of old national accounts onto modern statistics, so that incomes two centuries apart can be set on one scale.

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1907 covers 50 countries. United States is highest, at 9,951; Malawi is lowest, at 417. The middle country reads 2,295. Against 1906, 50 values changed (38 up, 12 down), 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1907

HighestUnited States

9,951

LowestMalawi

417

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1907, as published. GGDC ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 50 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1907: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America9,951
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,512
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,855
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe7,465
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7,358
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,268
7CanadaCANNorthern America6,177
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe5,592
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe5,557
10ArgentinaARGSouth America5,514
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,321
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,172
13FranceFRAWestern Europe4,894
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe4,085
15UruguayURYSouth America4,063
16ChileCHLSouth America3,810
17ItalyITASouthern Europe3,716
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe3,537
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe2,923
20South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2,907
21SpainESPSouthern Europe2,824
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe2,780
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe2,565
24PanamaPANCentral America2,377
25JapanJPNEastern Asia2,358

02In 1907

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States9,951
  2. 2New Zealand8,512
  3. 3United Kingdom7,855
  4. 4Switzerland7,465
  5. 5Australia7,358

Lowest

  1. 50Malawi417
  2. 49Zambia584
  3. 48Kenya612
  4. 47Uganda750
  5. 46Malaysia852

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,295. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031906 → 1907

Since 1906

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 50 in both
  • 38 · 12rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Myanmar

04Caveats

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Using the series

  • One year of the 2023 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2023 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1907.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 50 countries has every column.

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1907). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1907 [data set], describing 1907. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1907

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