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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925

1925, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925 covers 61 countries. United States is highest, at 11,150; Malawi is lowest, at 519. The middle country reads 2,455. Against 1924, 58 values changed (46 up, 12 down), 1 country joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1925

HighestUnited States

11,150

LowestMalawi

519

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925, as published. GGDC ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 61 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,150
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,851
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8,435
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,385
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,199
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,019
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,438
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6,978
9CanadaCANNorthern America6,918
10FranceFRAWestern Europe6,641
11ArgentinaARGSouth America6,247
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,630
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,488
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,367
15ChileCHLSouth America4,903
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,733
17ItalyITASouthern Europe4,580
18UruguayURYSouth America4,208
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,101
20SpainESPSouthern Europe3,720
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,711
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,633
23JapanJPNEastern Asia3,414
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,411
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,255

02In 1925

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,150
  2. 2Australia8,851
  3. 3New Zealand8,435
  4. 4Switzerland8,385
  5. 5United Kingdom8,199

Lowest

  1. 61Malawi519
  2. 60Zambia596
  3. 59Zimbabwe706
  4. 58Nigeria880
  5. 57Russia1,062

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,455. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031924 → 1925

Since 1924

What changed between 1924 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 60 in both
  • 46 · 12rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Jamaica

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2023 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2023 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1925.

  • The position is ours

    GGDC publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 61 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1925). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925 [data set], describing 1925. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1925

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925?

United States, at 11,150, of the 61 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925 describe?

1925.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925 cover?

61.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1925 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2022.

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