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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1926

1926, 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), 1926 covers 63 countries. United States is highest, at 11,648; Malawi is lowest, at 471. The middle country reads 2,423. Against 1925, 59 values changed (43 up, 16 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1926

HighestUnited States

11,648

LowestMalawi

471

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), 1926, 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 63 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1926: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,648
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,883
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,656
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,541
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe7,868
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,818
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,626
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,329
9CanadaCANNorthern America7,168
10FranceFRAWestern Europe6,773
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,366
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,756
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,746
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,440
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,750
16ChileCHLSouth America4,702
17ItalyITASouthern Europe4,576
18UruguayURYSouth America4,548
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,100
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,813
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,646
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,475
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,446
24JapanJPNEastern Asia3,359
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,259

02In 1926

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,648
  2. 2Australia8,883
  3. 3Switzerland8,656
  4. 4Netherlands8,541
  5. 5United Kingdom7,868

Lowest

  1. 63Malawi471
  2. 62Zambia601
  3. 61Zimbabwe768
  4. 60Kenya1,003
  5. 59Nigeria1,006

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,423. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031925 → 1926

Since 1925

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 60 in both
  • 43 · 16rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Kenya+ Myanmar+ Uganda− Jamaica

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 1926.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 63 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) (1926). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1926 [data set], describing 1926. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1926

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