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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927

1927, 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), 1927 covers 62 countries. United States is highest, at 11,532; Malawi is lowest, at 505. The middle country reads 2,457. Against 1926, 62 values changed (39 up, 23 down), 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1927

HighestUnited States

11,532

LowestMalawi

505

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), 1927, 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 62 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,532
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,260
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,837
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,773
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,472
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,847
7CanadaCANNorthern America7,726
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,465
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,425
10ArgentinaARGSouth America6,625
11FranceFRAWestern Europe6,621
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,282
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,942
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,587
15UruguayURYSouth America5,080
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,992
17ChileCHLSouth America4,544
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,454
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,229
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,076
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,954
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,576
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,566
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,539
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,347

02In 1927

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,532
  2. 2Switzerland9,260
  3. 3Australia8,837
  4. 4Netherlands8,773
  5. 5United Kingdom8,472

Lowest

  1. 62Malawi505
  2. 61Zambia620
  3. 60Zimbabwe840
  4. 59Nigeria878
  5. 58Uganda991

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,457. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031926 → 1927

Since 1926

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 39 · 23rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− 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 1927.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 62 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) (1927). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927 [data set], describing 1927. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1927

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