Data for 1992

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1992

Name: Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1992
Creator: Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)
License: https://doi.org/10.34894/INZBF2

1992, 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), 1992 covers 165 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 39,232; DR Congo is lowest, at 657. The middle country reads 5,530. Against 1991, 165 values changed (95 up, 70 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1992

HighestLuxembourg

39,232

LowestDR Congo

657

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

165countries
1measure
1992the year it describes
165distinct values13 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), 1992, 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), 1992: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
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1	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	39,232
2	United States`USA`Northern America	37,240
3	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	34,357
4	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	33,041
5	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	30,978
6	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	30,574
7	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	30,203
8	Canada`CAN`Northern America	29,141
9	France`FRA`Western Europe	28,620
10	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	28,556
11	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	28,200
12	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	28,072
13	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	27,560
14	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	27,385
15	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	27,199
16	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	26,961
17	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	26,859
18	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	25,790
19	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	24,776
20	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	24,220
21	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	21,532
22	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	21,093
23	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	20,329
24	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	20,033
25	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	18,599
26	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	18,291
27	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia	18,101
28	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	17,905
29	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	16,570
30	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	16,546
31	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	15,712
32	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	15,463
33	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	15,042
34	Venezuela`VEN`South America	14,902
35	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	14,341
36	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	14,196
37	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	13,214
38	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	12,965
39	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	12,810
40	Argentina`ARG`South America	12,267
41	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	12,251
42	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	12,002
43	Chile`CHL`South America	11,773
44	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	11,427
45	Uruguay`URY`South America	11,350
46	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	10,488
47	Mexico`MEX`Central America	10,262
48	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	10,241
49	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	10,013
50	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	10,002
51	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	9,961
52	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	9,839
53	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	9,411
54	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	9,384
55	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	9,332
56	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	9,305
57	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	9,154
58	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	9,150
59	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	8,409
60	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	8,194
61	Panama`PAN`Central America	8,149
62	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	8,130
63	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	8,039
64	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	7,994
65	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	7,992
66	Colombia`COL`South America	7,888
67	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	7,874
68	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	7,846
69	Brazil`BRA`South America	7,813
70	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	7,036
71	Ecuador`ECU`South America	6,715
72	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	6,568
73	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	6,456
74	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	6,292
75	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	6,113
76	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	5,902
77	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	5,790
78	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	5,737
79	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	5,734
80	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	5,639
81	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	5,546
82	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	5,533
83	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	5,530
84	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	5,411
85	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	5,304
86	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	5,287
87	Paraguay`PRY`South America	5,187
88	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	4,850
89	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	4,818
90	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	4,700
91	Peru`PER`South America	4,698
92	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	4,618
93	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	4,605
94	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	4,588
95	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	4,536
96	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	4,362
97	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	4,339
98	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	4,272
99	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	4,194
100	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	4,185
101	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	4,021
102	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	3,941
103	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	3,901
104	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	3,830
105	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	3,760
106	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	3,751
107	Bolivia`BOL`South America	3,592
108	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	3,400
109	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	3,399
110	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	3,228
111	Honduras`HND`Central America	3,095
112	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	2,842
113	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	2,833
114	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	2,732
115	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	2,691
116	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	2,185
117	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	2,163
118	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2,142
119	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	2,121
120	India`IND`Southern Asia	2,115
121	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	2,046
122	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	2,030
123	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,012
124	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	1,971
125	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	1,943
126	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	1,915
127	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	1,841
128	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	1,794
129	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	1,793
130	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	1,791
131	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	1,772
132	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	1,754
133	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	1,725
134	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	1,564
135	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	1,560
136	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	1,536
137	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	1,482
138	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	1,427
139	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1,391
140	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	1,389
141	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	1,375
142	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	1,355
143	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	1,336
144	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	1,309
145	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1,302
146	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	1,287
147	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	1,284
148	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1,265
149	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	1,186
150	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,182
151	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	1,153
152	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	1,128
153	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	1,115
154	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	1,062
155	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	965
156	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	935
157	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	915
158	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	895
159	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	844
160	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	833
161	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	803
162	Niger`NER`Western Africa	785
163	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	708
164	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	699
165	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	657

02In 1992

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Luxembourg39,232
2United States37,240
3Switzerland34,357
4Norway33,041
5Japan30,978

Lowest

165DR Congo657
164Chad699
163Ethiopia708
162Niger785
161Malawi803

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,530. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

+0 / −0countries joined / left
165values changed, of 165 in both
95 · 70rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Kuwait6,311 → 12,965+6,654
Qatar12,418 → 15,042+2,624
Norway31,128 → 33,041+1,914
Hong Kong29,009 → 30,203+1,194
Taiwan16,935 → 18,101+1,167

Fell most

Latvia13,775 → 9,411−4,364
Georgia9,535 → 5,287−4,248
Armenia8,142 → 4,700−3,442
Lithuania12,999 → 10,241−2,758
Moldova7,958 → 5,546−2,411

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Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1992). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1992

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