Data for 1973

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973

Name: Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973
Creator: Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)
License: https://doi.org/10.34894/INZBF2

1973, 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), 1973 covers 164 countries. Qatar is highest, at 68,407; Chad is lowest, at 746. The middle country reads 5,236. Against 1972, 149 values changed (121 up, 28 down), 14 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1973

HighestQatar

68,407

LowestChad

746

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

164countries
1measure
1973the year it describes
161distinct values12 decimals, as published
Sep 29, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973, as published. GGDC ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
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1	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	68,407
2	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	42,542
3	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	39,669
4	United States`USA`Northern America	26,602
5	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	26,004
6	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	23,820
7	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	22,228
8	Canada`CAN`Northern America	22,058
9	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	21,509
10	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	20,851
11	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	20,527
12	France`FRA`Western Europe	20,441
13	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	19,804
14	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	19,399
15	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	19,168
16	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	19,074
17	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	18,277
18	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	18,226
19	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	18,050
20	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	17,908
21	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	17,669
22	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	17,598
23	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	16,950
24	Venezuela`VEN`South America	15,540
25	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	15,374
26	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	15,079
27	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	13,844
28	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	13,799
29	Argentina`ARG`South America	12,691
30	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	12,506
31	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	12,202
32	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	12,154
33	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	12,103
34	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	11,717
35	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	11,639
36	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	11,630
37	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	11,258
38	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	10,946
39	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	10,635
40	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	10,492
41	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	10,026
42	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	9,969
43	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	9,806
44	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	9,456
45	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	8,920
46	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	8,894
47	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	8,706
48	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	8,552
49	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	8,512
50	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	8,423
51	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	8,397
52	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	8,341
53	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	8,125
54	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	7,913
55	Chile`CHL`South America	7,911
56	Uruguay`URY`South America	7,885
57	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	7,849
58	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	7,716
59	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	7,693
60	Mexico`MEX`Central America	7,597
61	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	7,471
62	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	7,068
63	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	6,975
64	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	6,935
65	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	6,884
66	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	6,655
67	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	6,583
68	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	6,527
69	Peru`PER`South America	6,413
70	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	6,403
71	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	6,177
72	Brazil`BRA`South America	6,086
73	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	6,005
74	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	5,982
75	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	5,941
76	Panama`PAN`Central America	5,719
77	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	5,668
78	Colombia`COL`South America	5,577
79	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	5,542
80	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia	5,496
81	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	5,255
82	Ecuador`ECU`South America	5,244
83	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	5,227
84	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	5,137
85	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	5,050
=86	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	4,801
=86	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	4,801
88	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	4,637
89	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	4,603
90	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	4,468
91	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	4,442
92	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	4,081
93	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	3,822
94	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	3,806
95	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	3,767
=96	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	3,757
=96	Bolivia`BOL`South America	3,757
98	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	3,623
99	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	3,540
100	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	3,537
101	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	3,486
102	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	3,196
103	Paraguay`PRY`South America	3,150
104	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	3,131
105	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	2,987
106	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2,986
107	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,974
108	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	2,950
109	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	2,852
110	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	2,700
111	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	2,614
112	Honduras`HND`Central America	2,544
113	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	2,378
114	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	2,375
115	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	2,313
116	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	2,283
117	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	2,268
118	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	2,227
119	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	2,204
120	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	2,096
121	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	2,063
122	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	2,012
123	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	1,902
124	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	1,824
125	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	1,793
126	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	1,693
127	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	1,678
128	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	1,666
129	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	1,599
130	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,591
131	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	1,589
132	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	1,553
133	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	1,546
134	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	1,521
135	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	1,513
136	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	1,473
137	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	1,470
=138	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1,411
=138	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	1,411
140	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1,403
141	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	1,364
142	India`IND`Southern Asia	1,360
143	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	1,333
144	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	1,331
145	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	1,328
146	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	1,305
147	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1,288
148	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	1,243
149	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	1,239
150	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1,172
151	Niger`NER`Western Africa	1,039
152	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	1,011
153	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	1,009
154	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	1,006
155	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	1,004
156	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	1,001
157	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	945
158	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	944
159	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	926
160	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	921
161	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	896
162	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	821
163	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	792
164	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	746

02In 1973

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Qatar68,407
2Kuwait42,542
3United Arab Emirates39,669
4United States26,602
5Switzerland26,004

Lowest

164Chad746
163Bangladesh792
162Guinea821
161Malawi896
160Burundi921

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,236. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

+14 / −0countries joined / left
149values changed, of 150 in both
121 · 28rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Qatar62,416 → 68,407+5,991
Saudi Arabia15,138 → 17,598+2,460
Luxembourg22,236 → 23,820+1,584
Canada20,837 → 22,058+1,221
United States25,414 → 26,602+1,188

Fell most

Kuwait48,283 → 42,542−5,741
Oman6,271 → 5,227−1,044
Syria7,243 → 6,403−840
Chile8,520 → 7,911−609
Palestine3,797 → 3,537−260

+ Armenia

+ Azerbaijan

+ Belarus

+ Estonia

+ Georgia

+ Kazakhstan

+ Kyrgyzstan

+ Lithuania

+ Latvia

+ Moldova

+ Tajikistan

+ Turkmenistan

+ Ukraine

+ Uzbekistan

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 1973.
161 distinct values among 164
Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 4,801. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 164 countries has every column.

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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1973). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1973

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