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	Greece	United States	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	20,077	44,576	32,088
Dec 31, 2000	20,965	45,886	33,367
Dec 31, 2001	21,914	45,878	34,260
Dec 31, 2002	22,894	46,266	34,591
Dec 31, 2003	24,380	47,158	34,716
Dec 31, 2004	25,780	48,493	35,529
Dec 31, 2005	26,092	49,655	36,206
Dec 31, 2006	27,731	50,490	38,014
Dec 31, 2007	28,823	50,902	39,752
Dec 31, 2008	28,908	50,276	40,715
Dec 31, 2009	27,840	48,453	38,963
Dec 31, 2010	26,517	49,267	41,110
Dec 31, 2011	24,349	49,675	43,189
Dec 31, 2012	22,746	50,436	43,288
Dec 31, 2013	22,335	51,011	43,359
Dec 31, 2014	22,592	51,797	44,133
Dec 31, 2015	22,696	52,808	44,405
Dec 31, 2016	22,680	53,301	45,030
Dec 31, 2017	22,973	54,152	46,065
Dec 31, 2018	23,404	55,455	46,377
Dec 31, 2019	23,870	56,469	46,762
Dec 31, 2020	21,767	54,379	44,996
Dec 31, 2021	23,732	57,523	46,159
Dec 31, 2022	25,284	58,487	46,648

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.

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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

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.