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	New Zealand	United States	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	25,868	44,576	32,088
Dec 31, 2000	26,823	45,886	33,367
Dec 31, 2001	27,167	45,878	34,260
Dec 31, 2002	28,066	46,266	34,591
Dec 31, 2003	28,876	47,158	34,716
Dec 31, 2004	29,807	48,493	35,529
Dec 31, 2005	30,270	49,655	36,206
Dec 31, 2006	30,799	50,490	38,014
Dec 31, 2007	31,784	50,902	39,752
Dec 31, 2008	31,445	50,276	40,715
Dec 31, 2009	31,233	48,453	38,963
Dec 31, 2010	31,586	49,267	41,110
Dec 31, 2011	32,057	49,675	43,189
Dec 31, 2012	32,715	50,436	43,288
Dec 31, 2013	33,109	51,011	43,359
Dec 31, 2014	33,591	51,797	44,133
Dec 31, 2015	34,248	52,808	44,405
Dec 31, 2016	34,880	53,301	45,030
Dec 31, 2017	35,574	54,152	46,065
Dec 31, 2018	36,420	55,455	46,377
Dec 31, 2019	36,912	56,469	46,762
Dec 31, 2020	35,854	54,379	44,996
Dec 31, 2021	37,837	57,523	46,159
Dec 31, 2022	38,250	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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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.