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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937

1937, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937 covers 64 countries. United States is highest, at 11,295; Malawi is lowest, at 694. The middle country reads 2,837. Against 1936, 64 values changed (52 up, 12 down), 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1937

HighestUnited States

11,295

LowestMalawi

694

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), 1937, 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), 1937: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,295
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10,039
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9,911
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand9,726
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand9,159
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9,035
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,660
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe7,908
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,579
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,468
11FranceFRAWestern Europe7,152
12CanadaCANNorthern America7,130
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,684
14ArgentinaARGSouth America6,575
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,485
16ChileCHLSouth America5,083
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,031
18UruguayURYSouth America4,935
19ItalyITASouthern Europe4,879
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,713
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,479
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe4,414
23JapanJPNEastern Asia4,075
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,053
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3,967

02In 1937

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,295
  2. 2Switzerland10,039
  3. 3United Kingdom9,911
  4. 4New Zealand9,726
  5. 5Australia9,159

Lowest

  1. 64Malawi694
  2. 63Zimbabwe924
  3. 62Zambia928
  4. 61Uganda995
  5. 60China1,034

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,837. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031936 → 1937

Since 1936

What changed between 1936 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 52 · 12rose · 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 1937.

  • 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) (1937). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937 [data set], describing 1937. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1937

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937?

United States, at 11,295, of the 64 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937 describe?

1937.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937 cover?

64.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1937?

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), 1937 the newest?

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

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