Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1933

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933

1933, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933 covers 66 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 10,009; Côte d’Ivoire is lowest, at 591. The middle country reads 2,424. Against 1932, 62 values changed (42 up, 20 down), 3 countries joined.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1933

HighestSwitzerland

10,009

LowestCôte d’Ivoire

591

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), 1933, 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 66 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,009
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,434
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe8,411
4United StatesUSANorthern America8,048
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,900
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7,718
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,461
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,294
9FranceFRAWestern Europe6,757
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe6,429
11ArgentinaARGSouth America5,772
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe5,668
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,633
14CanadaCANNorthern America5,372
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,516
16ItalyITASouthern Europe4,514
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,475
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,463
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,307
20UruguayURYSouth America4,112
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,818
22JapanJPNEastern Asia3,787
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,784
24SpainESPSouthern Europe3,686
25ChileCHLSouth America3,618

02In 1933

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland10,009
  2. 2Denmark8,434
  3. 3United Kingdom8,411
  4. 4United States8,048
  5. 5Netherlands7,900

Lowest

  1. 66Côte d’Ivoire591
  2. 65Malawi683
  3. 64Zambia808
  4. 63Zimbabwe829
  5. 62Nigeria892

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,424. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031932 → 1933

Since 1932

What changed between 1932 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 63 in both
  • 42 · 20rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Jamaica+ Nigeria

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 1933.

  • 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 66 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) (1933). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933 [data set], describing 1933. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1933

06112 held

Other years

07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933?

Switzerland, at 10,009, of the 66 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933 describe?

1933.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933 cover?

66.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1933?

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), 1933 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.