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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960

1960, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960 covers 149 countries. Qatar is highest, at 52,299; Botswana is lowest, at 564. The middle country reads 2,813. Against 1959, 149 values changed (128 up, 21 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1960

HighestQatar

52,299

LowestBotswana

564

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), 1960, 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 149 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia52,299
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia45,929
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia35,758
4United StatesUSANorthern America18,057
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe16,358
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe15,870
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand15,087
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14,046
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14,013
10CanadaCANNorthern America13,952
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe13,849
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13,780
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe13,209
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe12,282
15VenezuelaVENSouth America12,116
16FranceFRAWestern Europe11,792
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe11,483
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe11,081
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe10,959
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe10,391
21Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean9,964
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe9,931
23ItalyITASouthern Europe9,430
24ArgentinaARGSouth America8,861
25UruguayURYSouth America7,643

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar52,299
  2. 2Kuwait45,929
  3. 3United Arab Emirates35,758
  4. 4United States18,057
  5. 5Switzerland16,358

Lowest

  1. 149Botswana564
  2. 148Malawi628
  3. 147Guinea671
  4. 146Comoros679
  5. 145Ethiopia701

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,813. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 128 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1960.

  • 146 distinct values among 149

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 3,496. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 149 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) (1960). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1960

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960?

Qatar, at 52,299, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960 cover?

149.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1960?

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), 1960 the newest?

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

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