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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1949

1949, 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), 1949 covers 60 countries. United States is highest, at 14,197; Malawi is lowest, at 561. The middle country reads 3,319. Against 1948, 58 values changed (40 up, 18 down), 2 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1949

HighestUnited States

14,197

LowestMalawi

561

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), 1949, 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1949: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America14,197
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11,988
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,536
4CanadaCANNorthern America11,260
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,088
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,944
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe10,351
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe10,127
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,373
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,868
11NorwayNORNorthern Europe8,332
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,278
13ArgentinaARGSouth America8,045
14FranceFRAWestern Europe7,884
15VenezuelaVENSouth America7,828
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe6,604
17UruguayURYSouth America6,531
18ChileCHLSouth America5,710
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe5,426
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,249
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,231
22ItalyITASouthern Europe5,188
23South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,819
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,752
25PolandPOLEastern Europe3,630

02In 1949

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States14,197
  2. 2New Zealand11,988
  3. 3Australia11,536
  4. 4Canada11,260
  5. 5United Kingdom11,088

Lowest

  1. 60Malawi561
  2. 59India995
  3. 58Zambia1,001
  4. 57Zimbabwe1,055
  5. 56Uganda1,060

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,319. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031948 → 1949

Since 1948

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 58 in both
  • 40 · 18rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Indonesia+ 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 1949.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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) (1949). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1949 [data set], describing 1949. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1949

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