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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1928

1928, 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), 1928 covers 62 countries. United States is highest, at 11,451; Malawi is lowest, at 505. The middle country reads 2,530. Against 1927, 60 values changed (46 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1928

HighestUnited States

11,451

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), 1928, 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), 1928: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,451
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,659
3NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,118
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,690
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,539
6CanadaCANNorthern America8,244
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,195
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,191
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,627
10FranceFRAWestern Europe7,063
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,840
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,519
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,113
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,829
15ChileCHLSouth America5,609
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,241
17UruguayURYSouth America5,176
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,693
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,363
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,315
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,902
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,849
23IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,706
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,561
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,554

02In 1928

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,451
  2. 2Switzerland9,659
  3. 3Netherlands9,118
  4. 4Australia8,690
  5. 5United Kingdom8,539

Lowest

  1. 62Malawi505
  2. 61Zambia623
  3. 60Zimbabwe873
  4. 59Nigeria956
  5. 58Uganda958

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,530. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031927 → 1928

Since 1927

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 62 in both
  • 46 · 14rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1928.

  • 61 distinct values among 62

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 1,934. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 62 countries has every column.

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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1928). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1928 [data set], describing 1928. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1928

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