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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1932

1932, 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), 1932 covers 63 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 9,752; Malawi is lowest, at 629. The middle country reads 2,268. Against 1931, 62 values changed (18 up, 44 down), 2 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1932

HighestSwitzerland

9,752

LowestMalawi

629

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), 1932, 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), 1932: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,752
2United StatesUSANorthern America8,381
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,239
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,206
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,026
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,343
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7,275
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand6,897
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,325
10FranceFRAWestern Europe6,311
11CanadaCANNorthern America5,852
12ArgentinaARGSouth America5,614
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,526
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,359
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,686
16ItalyITASouthern Europe4,602
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,599
18UruguayURYSouth America4,450
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,069
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,065
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,851
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,649
23JapanJPNEastern Asia3,529
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,494
25ChileCHLSouth America2,950

02In 1932

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland9,752
  2. 2United States8,381
  3. 3Denmark8,239
  4. 4United Kingdom8,206
  5. 5Netherlands8,026

Lowest

  1. 63Malawi629
  2. 62Zambia735
  3. 61Zimbabwe819
  4. 60Uganda853
  5. 59China1,039

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,268. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031931 → 1932

Since 1931

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 63 in both
  • 18 · 44rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Myanmar− Nigeria

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 1932.

  • 62 distinct values among 63

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 1,890. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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) (1932). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1932 [data set], describing 1932. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1932

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