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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941

1941, 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), 1941 covers 57 countries. United States is highest, at 13,553; Malawi is lowest, at 685. The middle country reads 2,997. Against 1940, 53 values changed (29 up, 24 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1941

HighestUnited States

13,553

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), 1941, 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 57 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13,553
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,926
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand10,820
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand9,770
5CanadaCANNorthern America9,645
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,217
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe9,103
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,511
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,291
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,222
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,947
12ArgentinaARGSouth America6,861
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,722
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,554
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe5,916
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,295
17FranceFRAWestern Europe5,274
18UruguayURYSouth America5,225
19ChileCHLSouth America5,091
20JapanJPNEastern Asia4,986
21ItalyITASouthern Europe4,967
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
23VenezuelaVENSouth America4,635
24GuatemalaGTMCentral America4,503
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,186

02In 1941

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13,553
  2. 2United Kingdom11,926
  3. 3Australia10,820
  4. 4New Zealand9,770
  5. 5Canada9,645

Lowest

  1. 57Malawi685
  2. 56Zambia918
  3. 55India1,101
  4. 54Uganda1,127
  5. 53Kenya1,129

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,997. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031940 → 1941

Since 1940

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 53values changed, of 55 in both
  • 29 · 24rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Kenya+ Uganda− Nigeria− Philippines− Taiwan

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 1941.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 57 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) (1941). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941 [data set], describing 1941. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1941

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