Data for 1984

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984

Name: Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984
Creator: Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)
License: https://doi.org/10.34894/INZBF2

1984, 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), 1984 covers 164 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 32,135; Chad is lowest, at 601. The middle country reads 6,172. Against 1983, 164 values changed (113 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1984

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

32,135

LowestChad

601

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

164countries
1measure
1984the 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), 1984, 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), 1984: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
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1	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	32,135
2	United States`USA`Northern America	32,076
3	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	28,315
4	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	27,303
5	Canada`CAN`Northern America	26,836
6	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	26,581
7	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	26,321
=8	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	25,357
=8	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	25,357
10	France`FRA`Western Europe	24,519
11	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	24,009
12	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	23,750
13	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	23,644
14	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	23,564
15	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	23,548
16	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	23,016
17	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	22,486
18	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	21,869
19	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	21,868
20	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	21,783
21	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	21,042
22	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	20,650
23	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	20,354
24	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	18,305
25	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	17,680
26	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	16,767
27	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	16,660
28	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	16,343
29	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	14,682
30	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	14,453
31	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	14,435
32	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	14,384
33	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	14,313
34	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	14,104
35	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	13,796
36	Venezuela`VEN`South America	13,597
37	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	13,201
38	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	13,128
39	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	12,894
40	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	12,573
41	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	12,379
42	Argentina`ARG`South America	11,837
43	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	11,772
44	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	11,553
45	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	11,330
46	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	10,957
47	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	10,866
48	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	10,696
49	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	10,508
50	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia	10,394
51	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	10,249
52	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	10,181
53	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	10,007
54	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	9,797
55	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	9,792
56	Mexico`MEX`Central America	9,777
57	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	9,526
58	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	9,476
59	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	9,006
60	Uruguay`URY`South America	8,805
61	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	8,612
62	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	8,360
63	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	8,304
64	Chile`CHL`South America	7,992
65	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	7,828
66	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	7,798
67	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	7,599
68	Brazil`BRA`South America	7,438
69	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	7,264
70	Panama`PAN`Central America	7,192
71	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	7,189
72	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	7,065
73	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	6,951
74	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	6,867
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	6,843
76	Colombia`COL`South America	6,741
77	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	6,736
78	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	6,672
79	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	6,659
80	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	6,593
81	Ecuador`ECU`South America	6,336
82	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	6,314
83	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	6,030
84	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	5,952
85	Peru`PER`South America	5,859
86	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	5,695
87	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	5,539
=88	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	5,469
=88	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	5,469
90	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	5,361
91	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	5,059
92	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	5,051
93	Paraguay`PRY`South America	4,945
94	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	4,890
95	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	4,828
96	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	4,807
97	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	4,720
98	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	4,664
99	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	3,861
100	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	3,830
101	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	3,826
102	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	3,810
103	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	3,657
104	Bolivia`BOL`South America	3,561
105	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	3,469
106	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	3,443
107	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	3,403
108	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	3,387
109	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	3,357
110	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	3,308
111	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	3,134
112	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	3,124
113	Honduras`HND`Central America	2,968
114	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2,944
115	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	2,858
116	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	2,802
117	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,703
118	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	2,450
119	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	2,447
120	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	2,444
121	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	2,437
122	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	2,106
123	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	2,067
124	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	1,989
125	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	1,940
126	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	1,809
127	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	1,803
128	India`IND`Southern Asia	1,690
129	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	1,629
130	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	1,626
131	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	1,608
132	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1,597
133	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	1,594
134	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	1,589
135	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	1,530
136	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	1,527
137	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	1,492
138	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	1,486
139	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	1,476
140	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1,462
141	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	1,420
142	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	1,404
143	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	1,344
144	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	1,337
145	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	1,305
146	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	1,269
147	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	1,259
148	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,239
149	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	1,168
150	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	1,162
151	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	1,152
152	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1,146
153	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1,129
154	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	1,084
155	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	968
=156	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	956
=156	Niger`NER`Western Africa	956
158	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	932
159	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	925
160	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	918
161	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	897
162	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	870
163	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	824
164	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	601

02In 1984

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Lowest

164Chad601
163Guinea824
162Tanzania870
161Uganda897
160Bangladesh918

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6,172. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

+0 / −0countries joined / left
164values changed, of 164 in both
113 · 51rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

United States30,158 → 32,076+1,918
Hong Kong19,349 → 21,042+1,693
Luxembourg25,738 → 27,303+1,565
Lebanon3,402 → 4,828+1,426
Norway24,924 → 26,321+1,397

Fell most

Qatar23,146 → 20,354−2,792
Saudi Arabia17,315 → 16,343−972
Syria10,581 → 9,792−789
United Arab Emirates32,737 → 32,135−602
Venezuela14,155 → 13,597−558

04Caveats

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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 1984.
161 distinct values among 164
Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 25,357. 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) (1984). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1984

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