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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1942

1942, 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), 1942 covers 58 countries. United States is highest, at 14,870; Zambia is lowest, at 925. The middle country reads 2,888. Against 1941, 53 values changed (25 up, 28 down), 3 countries joined, 2 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1942

HighestUnited States

14,870

LowestZambia

925

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), 1942, 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 58 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1942: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America14,870
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe12,176
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,963
4CanadaCANNorthern America11,210
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand10,779
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe9,149
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,740
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,557
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,379
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe6,832
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,829
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6,546
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,371
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,349
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,261
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,303
17ChileCHLSouth America5,161
18JapanJPNEastern Asia4,939
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
20UruguayURYSouth America4,838
21FranceFRAWestern Europe4,752
22ItalyITASouthern Europe4,661
23GuatemalaGTMCentral America4,463
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,372
25VenezuelaVENSouth America4,001

02In 1942

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States14,870
  2. 2United Kingdom12,176
  3. 3Australia11,963
  4. 4Canada11,210
  5. 5New Zealand10,779

Lowest

  1. 58Zambia925
  2. 57Nigeria988
  3. 56Uganda1,060
  4. 55India1,082
  5. 54Kenya1,113

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,888. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031941 → 1942

Since 1941

  • +3 / −2countries joined / left
  • 53values changed, of 55 in both
  • 25 · 28rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Ghana+ Jamaica+ Nigeria− Indonesia− Malawi

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 1942.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 58 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) (1942). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1942 [data set], describing 1942. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1942

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