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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1930

1930, 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), 1930 covers 64 countries. United States is highest, at 10,695; Malawi is lowest, at 513. The middle country reads 2,548. Against 1929, 64 values changed (23 up, 41 down), 3 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1930

HighestUnited States

10,695

LowestMalawi

513

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), 1930, 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 64 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1930: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America10,695
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,969
3NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,931
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,673
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,513
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,936
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,906
8CanadaCANNorthern America7,669
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7,504
10FranceFRAWestern Europe7,224
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,755
12ArgentinaARGSouth America6,503
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,333
14UruguayURYSouth America5,950
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,781
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,716
17ChileCHLSouth America4,876
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,631
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,618
20IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,337
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,250
22SpainESPSouthern Europe3,918
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,832
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,599
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,334

02In 1930

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States10,695
  2. 2Switzerland9,969
  3. 3Netherlands8,931
  4. 4United Kingdom8,673
  5. 5Denmark8,513

Lowest

  1. 64Malawi513
  2. 63Zambia622
  3. 62Zimbabwe822
  4. 61Uganda853
  5. 60Nigeria907

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,548. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031929 → 1930

Since 1929

  • +0 / −3countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 23 · 41rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Albania− Jamaica− 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 1930.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 64 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) (1930). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1930 [data set], describing 1930. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1930

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