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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1913

1913, 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), 1913 covers 72 countries. United States is highest, at 10,108; Malawi is lowest, at 487. The middle country reads 1,858. Against 1912, 49 values changed (35 up, 14 down), 23 countries joined, 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1913

HighestUnited States

10,108

LowestMalawi

487

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), 1913, 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 72 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1913: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America10,108
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,220
=3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,212
=3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,212
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,172
6CanadaCANNorthern America7,088
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,727
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6,454
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6,236
10ArgentinaARGSouth America6,052
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,815
12FranceFRAWestern Europe5,555
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,523
14UruguayURYSouth America4,838
15ChileCHLSouth America4,836
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe4,581
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,415
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,361
19ItalyITASouthern Europe4,057
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,365
21HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,344
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,212
23SpainESPSouthern Europe3,063
24PanamaPANCentral America2,927
25PolandPOLEastern Europe2,772

02In 1913

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States10,108
  2. 2Australia8,220
  3. 3United Kingdomshared8,212
  4. 3New Zealandshared8,212
  5. 5Switzerland8,172

Lowest

  1. 72Malawi487
  2. 71Zambia585
  3. 70Uganda708
  4. 69Kenya718
  5. 68Nepal870

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1,858. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031912 → 1913

Since 1912

  • +23 / −1countries joined / left
  • 49values changed, of 49 in both
  • 35 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ China+ Algeria+ Egypt+ Hong Kong+ Hungary+ Ireland+ Iran+ Iraq+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Lebanon+ Morocco+ Myanmar+ Nepal+ Poland+ Palestine+ Saudi Arabia+ Syria+ Thailand+ Tunisia+ Türkiye+ Vietnam− Nigeria

04Caveats

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Using the series

  • A wider table built from one-year estimates

    This table holds clearly more countries than the years just before it, partly because several, much of the Middle East and North Africa among them, have an estimate for 1913 alone. Those rows have no yearly series around them to set beside 1912 or 1914.

  • 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 1913.

  • 70 distinct values among 72

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 8,212. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 72 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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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1913). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1913 [data set], describing 1913. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1913

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