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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952

1952, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952 covers 149 countries. Qatar is highest, at 47,990; Botswana is lowest, at 504. The middle country reads 2,193. Against 1951, 143 values changed (121 up, 22 down), 6 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1952

HighestQatar

47,990

LowestBotswana

504

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), 1952, 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 149 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia47,990
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia47,856
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia27,490
4United StatesUSANorthern America16,444
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe13,162
6CanadaCANNorthern America12,486
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand12,427
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe12,016
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11,824
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11,303
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe11,152
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11,086
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9,698
14VenezuelaVENSouth America9,309
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe9,267
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe9,035
17FranceFRAWestern Europe8,869
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe8,823
19ArgentinaARGSouth America7,519
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe7,450
21UruguayURYSouth America7,353
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,257
23ItalyITASouthern Europe6,371
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe6,323
25Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean6,282

02In 1952

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar47,990
  2. 2Kuwait47,856
  3. 3United Arab Emirates27,490
  4. 4United States16,444
  5. 5Luxembourg13,162

Lowest

  1. 149Botswana504
  2. 148Guinea-Bissau516
  3. 147Malawi540
  4. 146Guinea550
  5. 145Comoros559

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,193. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031951 → 1952

Since 1951

What changed between 1951 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −0countries joined / left
  • 143values changed, of 143 in both
  • 121 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Croatia+ North Macedonia+ Montenegro+ Serbia+ Slovenia

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 1952.

  • 148 distinct values among 149

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 3,017. 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 149 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) (1952). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952 [data set], describing 1952. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1952

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952?

Qatar, at 47,990, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952 describe?

1952.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952 cover?

149.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1952?

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), 1952 the newest?

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

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