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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948

1948, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948 covers 58 countries. United States is highest, at 14,734; Malawi is lowest, at 514. The middle country reads 3,265. Against 1947, 54 values changed (43 up, 11 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1948

HighestUnited States

14,734

LowestMalawi

514

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), 1948, 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 58 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America14,734
2CanadaCANNorthern America11,261
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe11,189
4AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,105
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11,045
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe10,753
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe9,822
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9,776
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe9,215
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8,751
11ArgentinaARGSouth America8,372
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe8,199
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,008
14VenezuelaVENSouth America7,712
15FranceFRAWestern Europe7,002
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe6,307
17ChileCHLSouth America5,939
18UruguayURYSouth America5,853
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe5,149
20ItalyITASouthern Europe4,814
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,517
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe4,406
23South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa3,848
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe3,507
25SpainESPSouthern Europe3,474

02In 1948

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States14,734
  2. 2Canada11,261
  3. 3Switzerland11,189
  4. 4Australia11,105
  5. 5New Zealand11,045

Lowest

  1. 58Malawi514
  2. 57Zambia944
  3. 56India983
  4. 55Zimbabwe1,036
  5. 54South Korea1,099

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,265. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031947 → 1948

Since 1947

What changed between 1947 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 54 in both
  • 43 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Ghana+ Malawi+ Poland− Jamaica

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 1948.

  • 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 58 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) (1948). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948 [data set], describing 1948. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1948

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948?

United States, at 14,734, of the 58 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948 describe?

1948.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948 cover?

58.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1948?

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), 1948 the newest?

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

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