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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 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), 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.

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

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

Rose most

Fell most

+ Haiti

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 1945.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 54 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) (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

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