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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1927

HighestUnited States

11,532

LowestMalawi

505

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), 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

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1927: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,532
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,260
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,837
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,773
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,472
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,847
7CanadaCANNorthern America7,726
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,465
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,425
10ArgentinaARGSouth America6,625
11FranceFRAWestern Europe6,621
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,282
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe5,942
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,587
15UruguayURYSouth America5,080
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe4,992
17ChileCHLSouth America4,544
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,454
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,229
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,076
21SpainESPSouthern Europe3,954
22IcelandISLNorthern Europe3,576
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,566
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,539
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,347

02In 1927

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Lowest

  1. 62Malawi505
  2. 61Zambia620
  3. 60Zimbabwe840
  4. 59Nigeria878
  5. 58Uganda991

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

Fell most

− Myanmar

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 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

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) (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

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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.

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