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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1990

1990, 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), 1990 covers 166 countries. United States is highest, at 36,982; Chad is lowest, at 692. The middle country reads 5,769. Against 1989, 163 values changed (86 up, 77 down), 1 country joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1990

HighestUnited States

36,982

LowestChad

692

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), 1990, 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 166 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1990: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America36,982
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe36,706
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe34,250
4CanadaCANNorthern America30,082
5JapanJPNEastern Asia29,949
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe29,434
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe29,412
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe28,760
9FranceFRAWestern Europe28,129
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe28,068
11Hong KongHKGEastern Asia27,960
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe27,515
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe27,412
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand27,373
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe26,930
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe26,884
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe26,189
18ItalyITASouthern Europe26,003
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe25,391
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22,666
21United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia22,254
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand21,817
23IsraelISRWestern Asia20,829
24SpainESPSouthern Europe19,215
25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18,838

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States36,982
  2. 2Luxembourg36,706
  3. 3Switzerland34,250
  4. 4Canada30,082
  5. 5Japan29,949

Lowest

  1. 166Chad692
  2. 165DR Congo813
  3. 163Malawishared861
  4. 163Guineashared861
  5. 162Niger872

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,769. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 165 in both
  • 86 · 77rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ North Korea

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 1990.

  • 163 distinct values among 166

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 3,939. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 166 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) (1990). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1990

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