Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1931

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931

1931, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931 covers 65 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 10,055; Zambia is lowest, at 619. The middle country reads 2,397. Against 1930, 63 values changed (15 up, 48 down), 1 country joined.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1931

HighestSwitzerland

10,055

LowestZambia

619

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), 1931, 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 65 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,055
2United StatesUSANorthern America9,931
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,542
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,265
5United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,190
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,747
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,133
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand6,940
9FranceFRAWestern Europe6,751
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,582
11CanadaCANNorthern America6,382
12ArgentinaARGSouth America5,917
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,821
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,297
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,241
16UruguayURYSouth America4,838
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,737
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,538
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,251
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,114
21ChileCHLSouth America3,904
22SpainESPSouthern Europe3,782
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,615
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,402
25JapanJPNEastern Asia3,321

02In 1931

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland10,055
  2. 2United States9,931
  3. 3Denmark8,542
  4. 4Netherlands8,265
  5. 5United Kingdom8,190

Lowest

  1. 65Zambia619
  2. 64Malawi629
  3. 63Zimbabwe852
  4. 62Uganda861
  5. 61Nigeria900

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,397. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031930 → 1931

Since 1930

What changed between 1930 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 64 in both
  • 15 · 48rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1931.

  • 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 65 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) (1931). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931 [data set], describing 1931. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1931

06112 held

Other years

07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931?

Switzerland, at 10,055, of the 65 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931 describe?

1931.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931 cover?

65.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1931?

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), 1931 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.