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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1934

1934, 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), 1934 covers 64 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 9,997.4; Malawi is lowest, at 649.8. The middle country reads 2,473.0. Against 1933, 63 values changed (43 up, 20 down), 2 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1934

HighestSwitzerland

9,997.4

LowestMalawi

649.8

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), 1934, 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), 1934: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,997.4
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,939.0
3United StatesUSANorthern America8,667.1
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,611.0
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,066.0
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,659.0
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,600.0
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,371.0
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,845.0
10FranceFRAWestern Europe6,682.0
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,150.0
12ArgentinaARGSouth America6,129.0
13CanadaCANNorthern America5,883.0
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,799.0
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,763.0
16UruguayURYSouth America4,693.0
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,594.0
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,546.0
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,500.3
20ItalyITASouthern Europe4,466.0
21ChileCHLSouth America4,269.0
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,854.0
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,778.0
24SpainESPSouthern Europe3,777.8
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,755.7

02In 1934

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland9,997.4
  2. 2United Kingdom8,939.0
  3. 3United States8,667.1
  4. 4Denmark8,611.0
  5. 5Australia8,066.0

Lowest

  1. 64Malawi649.8
  2. 63Uganda801.7
  3. 62Zimbabwe854.1
  4. 61Zambia857.9
  5. 60Nigeria908.4

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,473.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031933 → 1934

Since 1933

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 64 in both
  • 43 · 20rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Côte d’Ivoire− Jamaica

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 1934.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 64 countries has every column.

05The files

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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1934). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1934 [data set], describing 1934. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1934

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