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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963

1963, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963 covers 149 countries. Qatar is highest, at 44,912; Botswana is lowest, at 591. The middle country reads 2,958. Against 1962, 149 values changed (119 up, 30 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1963

HighestQatar

44,912

LowestBotswana

591

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), 1963, 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), 1963: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia44,912
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia40,377
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia39,889
4United StatesUSANorthern America19,514
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18,438
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe16,766
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand16,150
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe15,808
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15,513
10CanadaCANNorthern America15,248
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14,983
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14,583
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe14,078
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe13,367
15FranceFRAWestern Europe13,330
16VenezuelaVENSouth America13,232
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe12,723
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe12,532
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe12,366
20ItalyITASouthern Europe11,576
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe11,454
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe11,148
23Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean10,708
24IsraelISRWestern Asia8,915
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe8,871

02In 1963

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar44,912
  2. 2Kuwait40,377
  3. 3United Arab Emirates39,889
  4. 4United States19,514
  5. 5Switzerland18,438

Lowest

  1. 149Botswana591
  2. 148Malawi599
  3. 147Burundi673
  4. 146Guinea689
  5. 145Tanzania770

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,958. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031962 → 1963

Since 1962

What changed between 1962 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 119 · 30rose · 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 1963.

  • 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) (1963). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963 [data set], describing 1963. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1963

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963?

Qatar, at 44,912, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963 describe?

1963.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963 cover?

149.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1963?

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), 1963 the newest?

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

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