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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937

1937, 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), 1937 covers 64 countries. United States is highest, at 11,295; Malawi is lowest, at 694. The middle country reads 2,837. Against 1936, 64 values changed (52 up, 12 down), 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1937

HighestUnited States

11,295

LowestMalawi

694

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), 1937, 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), 1937: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,295
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,039
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9,911
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand9,726
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand9,159
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9,035
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,660
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,908
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,579
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,468
11FranceFRAWestern Europe7,152
12CanadaCANNorthern America7,130
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,684
14ArgentinaARGSouth America6,575
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,485
16ChileCHLSouth America5,083
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,031
18UruguayURYSouth America4,935
19ItalyITASouthern Europe4,879
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,713
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,479
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe4,414
23JapanJPNEastern Asia4,075
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,053
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,967

02In 1937

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,295
  2. 2Switzerland10,039
  3. 3United Kingdom9,911
  4. 4New Zealand9,726
  5. 5Australia9,159

Lowest

  1. 64Malawi694
  2. 63Zimbabwe924
  3. 62Zambia928
  4. 61Uganda995
  5. 60China1,034

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,837. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031936 → 1937

Since 1936

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 52 · 12rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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 1937.

  • 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) (1937). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937 [data set], describing 1937. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1937

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