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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950

1950, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950 covers 143 countries. Qatar is highest, at 48,436.0; Guinea-Bissau is lowest, at 462.0. The middle country reads 2,115.0. Against 1949, 60 values changed (46 up, 14 down), 83 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1950

HighestQatar

48,436.0

LowestGuinea-Bissau

462.0

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), 1950, 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 143 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia48,436.0
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia46,031.0
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia25,182.0
4United StatesUSANorthern America15,240.0
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13,479.0
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe13,378.0
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,815.0
8CanadaCANNorthern America11,622.0
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe11,541.0
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11,067.0
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,061.0
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe10,742.0
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,558.0
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe8,706.0
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe8,655.0
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,498.0
17VenezuelaVENSouth America8,462.0
18FranceFRAWestern Europe8,266.0
19ArgentinaARGSouth America7,949.0
20UruguayURYSouth America7,015.0
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe6,779.0
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe6,186.0
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe5,907.0
24ChileCHLSouth America5,880.0
25Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean5,856.0

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar48,436.0
  2. 2Kuwait46,031.0
  3. 3United Arab Emirates25,182.0
  4. 4United States15,240.0
  5. 5New Zealand13,479.0

Lowest

  1. 143Guinea-Bissau462.0
  2. 142Botswana489.0
  3. 141Malawi516.0
  4. 140Guinea520.0
  5. 139Comoros534.0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,115.0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031949 → 1950

Since 1949

What changed between 1949 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +83 / −0countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 60 in both
  • 46 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Angola+ Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Bahrain+ Barbados+ Botswana+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ DR Congo+ Republic of the Congo+ Comoros+ Cabo Verde+ Cyprus+ Djibouti+ Dominica+ Dominican Republic+ Algeria+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gabon+ Guinea+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Equatorial Guinea+ Hong Kong+ Iran+ Iraq+ Israel+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Kuwait+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Libya+ Saint Lucia+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Morocco+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malta+ Myanmar+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Mauritius+ Namibia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Oman+ Pakistan+ Puerto Rico+ Palestine+ Qatar+ Rwanda+ Saudi Arabia+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Singapore+ Sierra Leone+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Chad+ Togo+ Thailand+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia+ Taiwan+ Tanzania+ Vietnam+ Yemen

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 1950.

  • 141 distinct values among 143

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 2,632.0. 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 143 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) (1950). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1950

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950?

Qatar, at 48,436.0, of the 143 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950 describe?

1950.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950 cover?

143.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1950?

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), 1950 the newest?

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

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