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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941

1941, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941 covers 57 countries. United States is highest, at 13,553; Malawi is lowest, at 685. The middle country reads 2,997. Against 1940, 53 values changed (29 up, 24 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1941

HighestUnited States

13,553

LowestMalawi

685

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), 1941, 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 57 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13,553
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,926
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand10,820
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand9,770
5CanadaCANNorthern America9,645
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe9,217
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe9,103
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,511
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7,291
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe7,222
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,947
12ArgentinaARGSouth America6,861
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,722
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe6,554
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe5,916
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,295
17FranceFRAWestern Europe5,274
18UruguayURYSouth America5,225
19ChileCHLSouth America5,091
20JapanJPNEastern Asia4,986
21ItalyITASouthern Europe4,967
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
23VenezuelaVENSouth America4,635
24GuatemalaGTMCentral America4,503
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe4,186

02In 1941

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13,553
  2. 2United Kingdom11,926
  3. 3Australia10,820
  4. 4New Zealand9,770
  5. 5Canada9,645

Lowest

  1. 57Malawi685
  2. 56Zambia918
  3. 55India1,101
  4. 54Uganda1,127
  5. 53Kenya1,129

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,997. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031940 → 1941

Since 1940

What changed between 1940 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 53values changed, of 55 in both
  • 29 · 24rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Kenya+ Uganda− Nigeria− Philippines− Taiwan

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 1941.

  • 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 57 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) (1941). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941 [data set], describing 1941. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1941

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941?

United States, at 13,553, of the 57 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941 describe?

1941.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941 cover?

57.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1941?

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), 1941 the newest?

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

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