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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944

1944, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944 covers 53 countries. United States is highest, at 16,999; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 856. The middle country reads 3,070. Against 1943, 50 values changed (23 up, 27 down), 1 country joined, 4 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1944

HighestUnited States

16,999

LowestZimbabwe

856

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), 1944, 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 53 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America16,999
2CanadaCANNorthern America11,864
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,803
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,735
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand10,947
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe9,698
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe8,891
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8,835
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe7,987
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe7,776
11ArgentinaARGSouth America7,299
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,618
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe6,554
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe5,874
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe5,719
16UruguayURYSouth America5,322
17ChileCHLSouth America5,209
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe4,865
19JapanJPNEastern Asia4,816
20VenezuelaVENSouth America4,769
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe4,222
22FranceFRAWestern Europe3,861
23SpainESPSouthern Europe3,671
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,610
25ItalyITASouthern Europe3,162

02In 1944

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States16,999
  2. 2Canada11,864
  3. 3United Kingdom11,803
  4. 4Australia11,735
  5. 5New Zealand10,947

Lowest

  1. 53Zimbabwe856
  2. 52Uganda920
  3. 51Zambia946
  4. 50India1,089
  5. 49Kenya1,119

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,070. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031943 → 1944

Since 1943

What changed between 1943 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −4countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 52 in both
  • 23 · 27rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Zimbabwe− Jamaica− South Korea− Nigeria− North Korea

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 1944.

  • 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 53 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) (1944). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944 [data set], describing 1944. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1944

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944?

United States, at 16,999, of the 53 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944 describe?

1944.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944 cover?

53.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1944?

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), 1944 the newest?

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

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