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GDP per capita, long-run history

Annual, International dollars (2011 prices)

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
GDP per capita, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IndonesiaGermanyLaos
5,18732,0882,168
5,38433,3672,262
5,52634,2602,365
5,72034,5912,487
5,93934,7162,625
6,18135,5292,785
6,48236,2062,949
6,78338,0142,896
7,15739,7523,389
7,63340,7153,614
7,93638,9633,844
8,38641,1104,114
8,84943,1894,401
9,27243,2884,670
9,67643,3594,961
10,05144,1335,251
10,43244,4055,559
10,85045,0305,860
11,29246,0656,168
11,76846,3776,455
12,25046,7626,706
11,89544,9966,824
12,23446,1596,961
12,80246,6487,168

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

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.

No separate list is published for Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.