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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1936

1936, 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), 1936 covers 65 countries. United States is highest, at 10,568; Malawi is lowest, at 685. The middle country reads 2,590. Against 1935, 63 values changed (49 up, 14 down), 1 country joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1936

HighestUnited States

10,568

LowestMalawi

685

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), 1936, 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 65 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1936: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America10,568
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9,620
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand9,309
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,302
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,886
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,792
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,273
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,831
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,396
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,095
11FranceFRAWestern Europe6,765
12CanadaCANNorthern America6,574
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,432
14ArgentinaARGSouth America6,236
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,227
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
17UruguayURYSouth America4,790
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,774
19ChileCHLSouth America4,584
20ItalyITASouthern Europe4,471
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,313
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,173
23JapanJPNEastern Asia3,986
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,913
25VenezuelaVENSouth America3,904

02In 1936

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States10,568
  2. 2United Kingdom9,620
  3. 3New Zealand9,309
  4. 4Switzerland9,302
  5. 5Denmark8,886

Lowest

  1. 65Malawi685
  2. 64Zambia848
  3. 63Zimbabwe910
  4. 62Uganda969
  5. 61China1,065

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,590. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031935 → 1936

Since 1935

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 64 in both
  • 49 · 14rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Myanmar

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 1936.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 65 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) (1936). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1936 [data set], describing 1936. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1936

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