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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944

1944, 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), 1944 covers 53 countries. United States is highest, at 16,999; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 856. The middle country reads 3,070. Against 1943, 50 values changed (23 up, 27 down), 1 country joined, 4 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1944

HighestUnited States

16,999

LowestZimbabwe

856

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), 1944, 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 53 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America16,999
2CanadaCANNorthern America11,864
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,803
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,735
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand10,947
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe9,698
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,891
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,835
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,987
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe7,776
11ArgentinaARGSouth America7,299
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,618
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,554
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,874
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,719
16UruguayURYSouth America5,322
17ChileCHLSouth America5,209
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
19JapanJPNEastern Asia4,816
20VenezuelaVENSouth America4,769
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe4,222
22FranceFRAWestern Europe3,861
23SpainESPSouthern Europe3,671
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,610
25ItalyITASouthern Europe3,162

02In 1944

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States16,999
  2. 2Canada11,864
  3. 3United Kingdom11,803
  4. 4Australia11,735
  5. 5New Zealand10,947

Lowest

  1. 53Zimbabwe856
  2. 52Uganda920
  3. 51Zambia946
  4. 50India1,089
  5. 49Kenya1,119

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,070. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031943 → 1944

Since 1943

  • +1 / −4countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 52 in both
  • 23 · 27rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Zimbabwe− Jamaica− South Korea− Nigeria− North Korea

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 1944.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 53 countries has every column.

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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) (1944). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944 [data set], describing 1944. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1944

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