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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939

1939, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939 covers 61 countries. United States is highest, at 11,171; Malawi is lowest, at 683. The middle country reads 2,976. Against 1938, 59 values changed (42 up, 17 down), 1 country joined, 7 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1939

HighestUnited States

11,171

LowestMalawi

683

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), 1939, 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 61 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America11,171
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand10,297
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9,982
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,836
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9,553
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand9,318
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,837
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe8,617
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe8,370
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,209
11FranceFRAWestern Europe7,640
12CanadaCANNorthern America7,600
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe7,079
14ArgentinaARGSouth America6,612
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,529
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,432
17UruguayURYSouth America5,322
18ItalyITASouthern Europe5,246
19ChileCHLSouth America5,106
20IcelandISLNorthern Europe4,980
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
22JapanJPNEastern Asia4,804
23VenezuelaVENSouth America4,538
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,524
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe4,205

02In 1939

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States11,171
  2. 2New Zealand10,297
  3. 3United Kingdom9,982
  4. 4Switzerland9,836
  5. 5Denmark9,553

Lowest

  1. 61Malawi683
  2. 60Zambia931
  3. 59Zimbabwe966
  4. 58Nigeria1,012
  5. 57India1,074

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,976. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031938 → 1939

Since 1938

What changed between 1938 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −7countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 60 in both
  • 42 · 17rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Paraguay− China− Jamaica− Kenya− Myanmar− Poland− Thailand− Uganda

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 1939.

  • 59 distinct values among 61

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 3,037. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 61 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) (1939). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939 [data set], describing 1939. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1939

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939?

United States, at 11,171, of the 61 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939 describe?

1939.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939 cover?

61.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1939?

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), 1939 the newest?

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

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