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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1924

1924, 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), 1924 covers 60 countries. United States is highest, at 11,127; Malawi is lowest, at 495. The middle country reads 2,413. Against 1923, 56 values changed (42 up, 14 down), 3 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1924

HighestUnited States

11,127

LowestMalawi

495

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), 1924, 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1924: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,127
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,635
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,198
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,196
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,844
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,803
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,393
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,218
9FranceFRAWestern Europe6,661
10ArgentinaARGSouth America6,464
11CanadaCANNorthern America6,339
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,365
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,099
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,042
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,787
16ChileCHLSouth America4,779
17ItalyITASouthern Europe4,324
18UruguayURYSouth America4,258
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,095
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,545
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,514
22JapanJPNEastern Asia3,316
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,279
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,048
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,029

02In 1924

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,127
  2. 2Australia8,635
  3. 3New Zealand8,198
  4. 4Switzerland8,196
  5. 5United Kingdom7,844

Lowest

  1. 60Malawi495
  2. 59Zambia595
  3. 58Zimbabwe711
  4. 57Nigeria856
  5. 56Russia901

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,413. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031923 → 1924

Since 1923

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 57 in both
  • 42 · 14rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Hungary+ South Africa

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 1924.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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) (1924). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1924 [data set], describing 1924. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1924

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