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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 IndiaGermanyOman
2,70832,08821,520
2,75333,36724,186
2,83834,26026,431
2,87134,59127,142
3,03634,71627,314
3,21335,52928,607
3,39736,20630,393
3,62938,01433,375
3,87139,75236,425
4,03140,71540,910
4,27138,96344,245
4,52641,11046,182
4,76843,18944,454
4,98243,28847,428
5,22443,35948,901
5,52444,13348,528
5,87044,40549,927
6,32645,03051,383
6,63946,06550,503
7,04646,37750,135
7,29446,76248,597
6,73144,99646,133
7,31546,15946,574
7,76646,64847,989

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.