Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1984

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984

1984, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984 covers 164 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 32,135; Chad is lowest, at 601. The middle country reads 6,172. Against 1983, 164 values changed (113 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1984

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

32,135

LowestChad

601

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), 1984, 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), 1984: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia32,135
2United StatesUSANorthern America32,076
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe28,315
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe27,303
5CanadaCANNorthern America26,836
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe26,581
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe26,321
=8IcelandISLNorthern Europe25,357
=8SwedenSWENorthern Europe25,357
10FranceFRAWestern Europe24,519
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand24,009
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe23,750
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe23,644
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe23,564
15JapanJPNEastern Asia23,548
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe23,016
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe22,486
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe21,869
19ItalyITASouthern Europe21,868
20New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand21,783
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia21,042
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe20,650
23QatarQATWestern Asia20,354
24IsraelISRWestern Asia18,305
25Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean17,680

02In 1984

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates32,135
  2. 2United States32,076
  3. 3Switzerland28,315
  4. 4Luxembourg27,303
  5. 5Canada26,836

Lowest

  1. 164Chad601
  2. 163Guinea824
  3. 162Tanzania870
  4. 161Uganda897
  5. 160Bangladesh918

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6,172. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 164 in both
  • 113 · 51rose · 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 1984.

  • 161 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 25,357. 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) (1984). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1984

06112 held

Other years

07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984?

United Arab Emirates, at 32,135, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984 cover?

164.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1984?

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), 1984 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.