Data for 1927
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927
1927, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927 covers 62 countries. United States is highest, at 11,532; Malawi is lowest, at 505. The middle country reads 2,457. Against 1926, 62 values changed (39 up, 23 down), 1 left.
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1927
HighestUnited States
11,532LowestMalawi
505Shaded 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), 1927, 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 62 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,532 | |
| 2 | 9,260 | |
| 3 | 8,837 | |
| 4 | 8,773 | |
| 5 | 8,472 | |
| 6 | 7,847 | |
| 7 | 7,726 | |
| 8 | 7,465 | |
| 9 | 7,425 | |
| 10 | 6,625 | |
| 11 | 6,621 | |
| 12 | 6,282 | |
| 13 | 5,942 | |
| 14 | 5,587 | |
| 15 | 5,080 | |
| 16 | 4,992 | |
| 17 | 4,544 | |
| 18 | 4,454 | |
| 19 | 4,229 | |
| 20 | 4,076 | |
| 21 | 3,954 | |
| 22 | 3,576 | |
| 23 | 3,566 | |
| 24 | 3,539 | |
| 25 | 3,347 | |
| 26 | 2,668 | |
| 27 | 2,627 | |
| 28 | 2,608 | |
| 29 | 2,590 | |
| 30 | 2,528 | |
| 31 | 2,461 | |
| 32 | 2,453 | |
| 33 | 2,405 | |
| 34 | 2,289 | |
| 35 | 2,271 | |
| 36 | 2,270 | |
| 37 | 2,177 | |
| 38 | 2,161 | |
| 39 | 2,049 | |
| 40 | 2,010 | |
| 41 | 1,992 | |
| 42 | 1,986 | |
| 43 | 1,919 | |
| 44 | 1,884 | |
| 45 | 1,836 | |
| 46 | 1,724 | |
| 47 | 1,645 | |
| 48 | 1,612 | |
| 49 | 1,594 | |
| 50 | 1,555 | |
| 51 | 1,523 | |
| 52 | 1,478 | |
| 53 | 1,366 | |
| 54 | 1,248 | |
| 55 | 1,243 | |
| 56 | 1,154 | |
| 57 | 1,125 | |
| 58 | 991 | |
| 59 | 878 | |
| 60 | 840 | |
| 61 | 620 | |
| 62 | 505 |
02In 1927
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
Highest
- 1
United States11,532
- 2
Switzerland9,260
- 3
Australia8,837
- 4
Netherlands8,773
- 5
United Kingdom8,472
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,457. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
031926 → 1927
Since 1926
What changed between 1926 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +0 / −1countries joined / left
- 62values changed, of 62 in both
- 39 · 23rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
United Kingdom7,868 → 8,472+604
Switzerland8,656 → 9,260+604
Canada7,168 → 7,726+558
Germany5,746 → 6,282+536
Uruguay4,548 → 5,080+532
Fell most
Singapore2,686 → 1,986−700
New Zealand7,818 → 7,465−353
Costa Rica2,872 → 2,608−264
El Salvador1,706 → 1,478−228
Mexico2,756 → 2,590−166
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.
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 1927.
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 62 countries has every column.
05The files
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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
- .csv
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Download historical-gdp-per-capita-1927-nations-inquiry.csv - ↗
The publisher’s original
GGDC’s own file, on its own site.
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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) (1927). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927 [data set], describing 1927. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1927
06112 held
Other years
‹ The year before
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 192663 countries
The year after ›
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 192862 countries
All of them
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison): every year112 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927: questions and answers
Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927?
United States, at 11,532, of the 62 countries in the file.
What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927 describe?
1927.
How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927 cover?
62.
Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927?
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), 1927 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2022.