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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1922

1922, 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), 1922 covers 55 countries. United States is highest, at 10,010; Malawi is lowest, at 432. The middle country reads 2,405. Against 1921, 55 values changed (48 up, 7 down), 2 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1922

HighestUnited States

10,010

LowestMalawi

432

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), 1922, 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 55 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1922: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America10,010
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,072
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,716
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,391
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,331
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe7,182
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,034
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6,641
9CanadaCANNorthern America6,046
10ArgentinaARGSouth America5,796
11FranceFRAWestern Europe5,754
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,310
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe4,868
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,586
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,570
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,141
17ItalyITASouthern Europe3,928
18UruguayURYSouth America3,870
19ChileCHLSouth America3,814
20SpainESPSouthern Europe3,423
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,280
22JapanJPNEastern Asia3,244
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,129
24IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,012
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2,884

02In 1922

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States10,010
  2. 2Australia8,072
  3. 3New Zealand7,716
  4. 4United Kingdom7,391
  5. 5Netherlands7,331

Lowest

  1. 55Malawi432
  2. 54Russia679
  3. 53Zimbabwe698
  4. 52Nigeria861
  5. 51India1,117

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,405. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031921 → 1922

Since 1921

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 55values changed, of 55 in both
  • 48 · 7rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Bulgaria− 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 1922.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 55 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) (1922). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1922 [data set], describing 1922. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1922

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