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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1929

1929, 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), 1929 covers 67 countries. United States is highest, at 11,954; Malawi is lowest, at 505. The middle country reads 2,566. Against 1928, 61 values changed (44 up, 17 down), 5 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1929

HighestUnited States

11,954

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), 1929, 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 67 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1929: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,954
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,920
3NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,068
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,772
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,389
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,388
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,089
8CanadaCANNorthern America8,074
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,056
10FranceFRAWestern Europe7,508
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,961
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,476
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,457
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,896
15ChileCHLSouth America5,679
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,581
17UruguayURYSouth America5,128
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,889
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,501
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,331
21SpainESPSouthern Europe4,169
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,947
23IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,919
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,733
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,665

02In 1929

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,954
  2. 2Switzerland9,920
  3. 3Netherlands9,068
  4. 4United Kingdom8,772
  5. 5Australia8,389

Lowest

  1. 67Malawi505
  2. 66Zambia617
  3. 65Zimbabwe845
  4. 64Kenya907
  5. 63Uganda932

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,566. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031928 → 1929

Since 1928

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 62 in both
  • 44 · 17rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ China+ Jamaica+ Poland+ Thailand

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 1929.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 67 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) (1929). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1929 [data set], describing 1929. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1929

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