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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912

1912, 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), 1912 covers 50 countries. United States is highest, at 9,977; Malawi is lowest, at 439. The middle country reads 2,113. Against 1911, 49 values changed (34 up, 15 down), 4 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1912

HighestUnited States

9,977

LowestMalawi

439

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), 1912, 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), 1912: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America9,977
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,312
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,303
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,126
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,954
6CanadaCANNorthern America6,977
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,704
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6,245
9ArgentinaARGSouth America6,223
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6,076
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,617
12FranceFRAWestern Europe5,601
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,587
14UruguayURYSouth America5,176
15ChileCHLSouth America4,806
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe4,312
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,050
18ItalyITASouthern Europe3,875
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,223
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,135
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,068
22PanamaPANCentral America2,930
23SpainESPSouthern Europe2,911
24JapanJPNEastern Asia2,420
25MexicoMEXCentral America2,131

02In 1912

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States9,977
  2. 2Switzerland8,312
  3. 3New Zealand8,303
  4. 4Australia8,126
  5. 5United Kingdom7,954

Lowest

  1. 50Malawi439
  2. 49Zambia584
  3. 48Kenya687
  4. 47Uganda712
  5. 46Nigeria988

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,113. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031911 → 1912

Since 1911

  • +0 / −4countries joined / left
  • 49values changed, of 50 in both
  • 34 · 15rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Bulgaria− China− Ghana− 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 1912.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 50 countries has every column.

05The files

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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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Cite this edition

Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1912). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912 [data set], describing 1912. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1912

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