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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973

1973, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973 covers 164 countries. Qatar is highest, at 68,407; Chad is lowest, at 746. The middle country reads 5,236. Against 1972, 149 values changed (121 up, 28 down), 14 countries joined.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1973

HighestQatar

68,407

LowestChad

746

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), 1973, 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 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia68,407
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia42,542
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia39,669
4United StatesUSANorthern America26,602
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe26,004
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe23,820
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe22,228
8CanadaCANNorthern America22,058
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe21,509
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe20,851
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20,527
12FranceFRAWestern Europe20,441
13New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19,804
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe19,399
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe19,168
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe19,074
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe18,277
18JapanJPNEastern Asia18,226
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe18,050
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe17,908
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe17,669
22Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia17,598
23ItalyITASouthern Europe16,950
24VenezuelaVENSouth America15,540
25IsraelISRWestern Asia15,374

02In 1973

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar68,407
  2. 2Kuwait42,542
  3. 3United Arab Emirates39,669
  4. 4United States26,602
  5. 5Switzerland26,004

Lowest

  1. 164Chad746
  2. 163Bangladesh792
  3. 162Guinea821
  4. 161Malawi896
  5. 160Burundi921

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,236. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

What changed between 1972 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 150 in both
  • 121 · 28rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Estonia+ Georgia+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Lithuania+ Latvia+ Moldova+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Uzbekistan

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 1973.

  • 161 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 4,801. 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 164 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) (1973). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1973

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973?

Qatar, at 68,407, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973 describe?

1973.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973 cover?

164.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1973?

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), 1973 the newest?

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

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