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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945

1945, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945 covers 54 countries. United States is highest, at 16,478; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 854. The middle country reads 2,988. Against 1944, 52 values changed (21 up, 31 down), 1 country joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1945

HighestUnited States

16,478

LowestZimbabwe

854

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945, 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 54 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America16,478
2CanadaCANNorthern America11,370
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,247
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11,043
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,026
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,839
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,282
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe8,201
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,075
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,195
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,943
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,907
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,344
14VenezuelaVENSouth America5,808
15ChileCHLSouth America5,553
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,499
17UruguayURYSouth America5,418
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,812
19NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe4,281
20FranceFRAWestern Europe4,101
21JapanJPNEastern Asia3,678
22South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,631
23PanamaPANCentral America3,371
24SpainESPSouthern Europe3,353
25PeruPERSouth America3,131

02In 1945

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States16,478
  2. 2Canada11,370
  3. 3United Kingdom11,247
  4. 4New Zealand11,043
  5. 5Australia11,026

Lowest

  1. 54Zimbabwe854
  2. 53Zambia864
  3. 52Romania876
  4. 51Uganda912
  5. 50India1,058

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,988. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031944 → 1945

Since 1944

What changed between 1944 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 52values changed, of 53 in both
  • 21 · 31rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Haiti

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2023 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2023 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1945.

  • The position is ours

    GGDC publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 54 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1945). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945 [data set], describing 1945. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1945

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945?

United States, at 16,478, of the 54 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945 describe?

1945.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945 cover?

54.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1945 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2022.

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