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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964

1964, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964 covers 149 countries. Qatar is highest, at 42,186; Malawi is lowest, at 572. The middle country reads 3,158. Against 1963, 149 values changed (125 up, 24 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1964

HighestQatar

42,186

LowestMalawi

572

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), 1964, 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), 1964: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia42,186
2United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia40,927
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia40,333
4United StatesUSANorthern America20,360
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe19,195
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe17,864
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16,832
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe16,761
9New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand16,606
10CanadaCANNorthern America15,938
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand15,699
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15,251
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15,042
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe14,062
15FranceFRAWestern Europe14,057
16VenezuelaVENSouth America14,019
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe13,386
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe13,295
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe13,256
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe12,062
21ItalyITASouthern Europe11,934
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe11,647
23Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean10,841
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe9,624
25ArgentinaARGSouth America9,446

02In 1964

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar42,186
  2. 2United Arab Emirates40,927
  3. 3Kuwait40,333
  4. 4United States20,360
  5. 5Switzerland19,195

Lowest

  1. 149Malawi572
  2. 148Botswana604
  3. 147Burundi695
  4. 146Guinea720
  5. 145Tanzania787

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3,158. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031963 → 1964

Since 1963

What changed between 1963 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 125 · 24rose · 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 1964.

  • 145 distinct values among 149

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 3 countries share 1,208. 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) (1964). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964 [data set], describing 1964. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1964

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964?

Qatar, at 42,186, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964 describe?

1964.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964 cover?

149.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1964?

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), 1964 the newest?

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

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