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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959

1959, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959 covers 149 countries. Qatar is highest, at 52,436; Botswana is lowest, at 559. The middle country reads 2,667. Against 1958, 149 values changed (126 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1959

HighestQatar

52,436

LowestBotswana

559

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), 1959, 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), 1959: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia52,436
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia47,131
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia34,153
4United StatesUSANorthern America17,900
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15,470
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe15,382
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand15,350
8CanadaCANNorthern America13,829
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe13,767
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand13,753
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe13,211
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13,134
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe12,333
14VenezuelaVENSouth America12,078
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe11,440
16FranceFRAWestern Europe11,124
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe10,957
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe10,702
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe10,533
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe9,645
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe9,172
22Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean9,154
23ItalyITASouthern Europe9,011
24ArgentinaARGSouth America8,354
25UruguayURYSouth America7,450

02In 1959

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar52,436
  2. 2Kuwait47,131
  3. 3United Arab Emirates34,153
  4. 4United States17,900
  5. 5Switzerland15,470

Lowest

  1. 149Botswana559
  2. 148Malawi626
  3. 147Comoros639
  4. 146Guinea655
  5. 145Ethiopia681

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,667. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 126 · 23rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1959.

  • 145 distinct values among 149

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 2 countries share 3,524. 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) (1959). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1959

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959?

Qatar, at 52,436, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959 cover?

149.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1959?

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), 1959 the newest?

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

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