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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1921

1921, 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), 1921 covers 57 countries. United States is highest, at 9,675; Malawi is lowest, at 427. The middle country reads 2,203. Against 1920, 53 values changed (23 up, 30 down), 2 countries joined, 2 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1921

HighestUnited States

9,675

LowestMalawi

427

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), 1921, 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 57 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1921: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America9,675
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,174
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7,828
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,063
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe6,792
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,465
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6,099
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe5,999
9ArgentinaARGSouth America5,533
10CanadaCANNorthern America5,351
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,906
12FranceFRAWestern Europe4,901
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe4,543
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,224
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,222
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,038
17ChileCHLSouth America3,727
18ItalyITASouthern Europe3,660
19UruguayURYSouth America3,532
20SpainESPSouthern Europe3,318
21JapanJPNEastern Asia3,244
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,057
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,003
24IcelandISLNorthern Europe2,684
25MexicoMEXCentral America2,542

02In 1921

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States9,675
  2. 2New Zealand8,174
  3. 3Australia7,828
  4. 4Netherlands7,063
  5. 5United Kingdom6,792

Lowest

  1. 57Malawi427
  2. 56Russia567
  3. 55Zimbabwe639
  4. 54Nigeria881
  5. 53India1,082

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,203. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031920 → 1921

Since 1920

  • +2 / −2countries joined / left
  • 53values changed, of 55 in both
  • 23 · 30rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Ireland+ Myanmar− Hungary− Poland

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 1921.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 57 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) (1921). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1921 [data set], describing 1921. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1921

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