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Annual, International dollars (2011 prices)

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

GDP per capita, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Germany	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	44,576	32,088	41,092
Dec 31, 2000	45,886	33,367	43,251
Dec 31, 2001	45,878	34,260	44,399
Dec 31, 2002	46,266	34,591	44,934
Dec 31, 2003	47,158	34,716	45,442
Dec 31, 2004	48,493	35,529	47,264
Dec 31, 2005	49,655	36,206	49,274
Dec 31, 2006	50,490	38,014	51,863
Dec 31, 2007	50,902	39,752	54,510
Dec 31, 2008	50,276	40,715	56,055
Dec 31, 2009	48,453	38,963	55,172
Dec 31, 2010	49,267	41,110	57,219
Dec 31, 2011	49,675	43,189	58,686
Dec 31, 2012	50,436	43,288	58,751
Dec 31, 2013	51,011	43,359	59,120
Dec 31, 2014	51,797	44,133	59,776
Dec 31, 2015	52,808	44,405	60,071
Dec 31, 2016	53,301	45,030	60,648
Dec 31, 2017	54,152	46,065	60,903
Dec 31, 2018	55,455	46,377	62,185
Dec 31, 2019	56,469	46,762	62,449
Dec 31, 2020	54,379	44,996	60,521
Dec 31, 2021	57,523	46,159	62,595
Dec 31, 2022	58,487	46,648	63,323

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

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK