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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981

1981, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981 covers 164 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 42,456; Chad is lowest, at 521. The middle country reads 6,264. Against 1980, 164 values changed (96 up, 68 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1981

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

42,456

LowestChad

521

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), 1981, 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), 1981: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia42,456
2QatarQATWestern Asia37,307
3United StatesUSANorthern America30,056
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe27,730
5CanadaCANNorthern America26,256
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe25,284
7LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe25,136
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe24,179
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24,063
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe23,777
11FranceFRAWestern Europe23,655
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand23,368
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe23,153
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe22,760
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe22,553
16JapanJPNEastern Asia21,924
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe21,866
18Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia21,393
19ItalyITASouthern Europe21,041
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe20,935
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe20,929
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand20,537
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe20,319
24Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean20,298
25Hong KongHKGEastern Asia18,301

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates42,456
  2. 2Qatar37,307
  3. 3United States30,056
  4. 4Switzerland27,730
  5. 5Canada26,256

Lowest

  1. 164Chad521
  2. 163Guinea859
  3. 162Bangladesh878
  4. 161Tanzania920
  5. 160Uganda923

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6,264. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 164 in both
  • 96 · 68rose · 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 1981.

  • 161 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 3,049. 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) (1981). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1981

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981?

United Arab Emirates, at 42,456, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981 cover?

164.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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