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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 (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. A higher value is the better result.

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

What changed between 1911 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Fell most

− Bulgaria− China− Ghana− Myanmar

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2023 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2023 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1912.

  • The position is ours

    GGDC publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 50 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

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

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912?

United States, at 9,977, of the 50 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912 describe?

1912.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912 cover?

50.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1912 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2022.

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