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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1946

1946, 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), 1946 covers 54 countries. United States is highest, at 14,822; Romania is lowest, at 853. The middle country reads 3,121. Against 1945, 50 values changed (37 up, 13 down), 4 countries joined, 4 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1946

HighestUnited States

14,822

LowestRomania

853

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), 1946, 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), 1946: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America14,822
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11,415
3CanadaCANNorthern America11,048
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,866
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe10,751
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand10,512
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9,208
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe9,000
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,490
10ArgentinaARGSouth America7,436
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,291
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,104
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,910
14VenezuelaVENSouth America6,655
15FranceFRAWestern Europe6,145
16ChileCHLSouth America5,918
17UruguayURYSouth America5,903
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,871
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
20ItalyITASouthern Europe3,805
21South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,684
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe3,534
23SpainESPSouthern Europe3,468
24ColombiaCOLSouth America3,215
25PeruPERSouth America3,196

02In 1946

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States14,822
  2. 2New Zealand11,415
  3. 3Canada11,048
  4. 4Switzerland10,866
  5. 5United Kingdom10,751

Lowest

  1. 54Romania853
  2. 53Zambia866
  3. 52Zimbabwe878
  4. 51South Korea916
  5. 50India991

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,121. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031945 → 1946

Since 1945

  • +4 / −4countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 50 in both
  • 37 · 13rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Hungary+ Jamaica+ South Korea+ Philippines− Bulgaria− Ghana− Kenya− Uganda

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 1946.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 54 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) (1946). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1946 [data set], describing 1946. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1946

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