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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1951

1951, 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), 1951 covers 143 countries. Qatar is highest, at 48,653.0; Guinea-Bissau is lowest, at 489.0. The middle country reads 2,251.0. Against 1950, 143 values changed (117 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1951

HighestQatar

48,653.0

LowestGuinea-Bissau

489.0

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), 1951, 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 143 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1951: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia48,653.0
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia47,464.0
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia26,634.0
4United StatesUSANorthern America16,125.0
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12,337.0
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand12,199.0
7CanadaCANNorthern America12,007.0
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,966.0
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe11,877.9
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,354.0
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe11,077.0
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11,056.0
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,615.0
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe9,161.0
15VenezuelaVENSouth America9,039.0
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe9,038.0
17FranceFRAWestern Europe8,705.0
18ArgentinaARGSouth America8,086.0
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,080.0
20UruguayURYSouth America7,548.0
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe7,286.0
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,704.0
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,311.0
24Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean6,207.0
25ChileCHLSouth America6,001.0

02In 1951

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar48,653.0
  2. 2Kuwait47,464.0
  3. 3United Arab Emirates26,634.0
  4. 4United States16,125.0
  5. 5Luxembourg12,337.0

Lowest

  1. 143Guinea-Bissau489.0
  2. 142Botswana497.0
  3. 141Malawi529.0
  4. 140Guinea542.0
  5. 139Comoros553.0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,251.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031950 → 1951

Since 1950

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 143values changed, of 143 in both
  • 117 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1951.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 143 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) (1951). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1951 [data set], describing 1951. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1951

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