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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1923

1923, 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), 1923 covers 57 countries. United States is highest, at 11,071; Malawi is lowest, at 457. The middle country reads 2,348. Against 1922, 55 values changed (42 up, 13 down), 2 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1923

HighestUnited States

11,071

LowestMalawi

457

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), 1923, 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), 1923: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,071
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,276
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,199
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe7,670
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,587
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,388
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,267
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,226
9CanadaCANNorthern America6,338
10ArgentinaARGSouth America6,213
11FranceFRAWestern Europe5,984
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,023
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,870
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,530
15ChileCHLSouth America4,514
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,383
17ItalyITASouthern Europe4,248
18UruguayURYSouth America4,112
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,105
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,486
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,429
22JapanJPNEastern Asia3,244
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,169
24SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2,952
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe2,851

02In 1923

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,071
  2. 2Australia8,276
  3. 3New Zealand8,199
  4. 4Switzerland7,670
  5. 5United Kingdom7,587

Lowest

  1. 57Malawi457
  2. 56Zambia608
  3. 55Nigeria727
  4. 54Zimbabwe749
  5. 53Russia775

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,348. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031922 → 1923

Since 1922

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 55values changed, of 55 in both
  • 42 · 13rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Türkiye+ Zambia

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 1923.

  • 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) (1923). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1923 [data set], describing 1923. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1923

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