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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1935

HighestUnited States

9,681

LowestMalawi

650

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), 1935, 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 64 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America9,681
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,479
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9,244
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,735
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8,477
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand7,905
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,857
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,801
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,160
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,567
11FranceFRAWestern Europe6,513
12CanadaCANNorthern America6,298
13ArgentinaARGSouth America6,296
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,057
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe4,930
16UruguayURYSouth America4,790
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,728
18ItalyITASouthern Europe4,670
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,634
20ChileCHLSouth America4,511
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,332
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe3,953
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,939
24JapanJPNEastern Asia3,825
25SpainESPSouthern Europe3,802

02In 1935

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States9,681
  2. 2Switzerland9,479
  3. 3United Kingdom9,244
  4. 4Denmark8,735
  5. 5Australia8,477

Lowest

  1. 64Malawi650
  2. 63Zambia836
  3. 62Zimbabwe872
  4. 61Uganda915
  5. 60Nigeria935

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,667. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031934 → 1935

Since 1934

What changed between 1934 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 64 in both
  • 51 · 11rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1935.

  • 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 64 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) (1935). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935 [data set], describing 1935. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1935

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935?

United States, at 9,681, of the 64 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935 describe?

1935.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935 cover?

64.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1935?

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), 1935 the newest?

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

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