GDP per capita, long-run history: compare countries

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GDP per capita, long-run history by country

Annual, International dollars (2011 prices)

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

GDP per capita, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	United States	Germany	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	35,551	44,576	32,088	990
Dec 31, 2000	36,603	45,886	33,367	967
Dec 31, 2001	37,276	45,878	34,260	899
Dec 31, 2002	38,567	46,266	34,591	886
Dec 31, 2003	39,524	47,158	34,716	906
Dec 31, 2004	40,888	48,493	35,529	923
Dec 31, 2005	41,904	49,655	36,206	920
Dec 31, 2006	42,651	50,490	38,014	929
Dec 31, 2007	44,034	50,902	39,752	982
Dec 31, 2008	44,422	50,276	40,715	1,018
Dec 31, 2009	44,687	48,453	38,963	1,062
Dec 31, 2010	45,400	49,267	41,110	1,092
Dec 31, 2011	46,132	49,675	43,189	1,102
Dec 31, 2012	47,045	50,436	43,288	1,089
Dec 31, 2013	47,261	51,011	43,359	1,113
Dec 31, 2014	47,754	51,797	44,133	1,143
Dec 31, 2015	48,146	52,808	44,405	1,144
Dec 31, 2016	48,675	53,301	45,030	1,139
Dec 31, 2017	49,002	54,152	46,065	1,153
Dec 31, 2018	49,614	55,455	46,377	1,173
Dec 31, 2019	49,815	56,469	46,762	1,205
Dec 31, 2020	48,269	54,379	44,996	1,187
Dec 31, 2021	50,705	57,523	46,159	1,211
Dec 31, 2022	52,049	58,487	46,648	1,190

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.