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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989

1989, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989 covers 165 countries. United States is highest, at 36,756; Chad is lowest, at 685. The middle country reads 5,915. Against 1988, 164 values changed (103 up, 61 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1989

HighestUnited States

36,756

LowestChad

685

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), 1989, 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 165 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America36,756
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe36,442
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe33,316
4CanadaCANNorthern America30,458
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe29,108
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe28,942
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe28,652
8JapanJPNEastern Asia28,601
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe27,933
10FranceFRAWestern Europe27,576
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand27,407
12Hong KongHKGEastern Asia27,377
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe27,012
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe26,690
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe26,612
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe26,393
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe26,164
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe26,078
19ItalyITASouthern Europe25,454
20New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand22,107
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia21,221
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia21,072
23IsraelISRWestern Asia20,091
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe19,837
25EstoniaESTNorthern Europe18,779

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States36,756
  2. 2Luxembourg36,442
  3. 3Switzerland33,316
  4. 4Canada30,458
  5. 5Denmark29,108

Lowest

  1. 165Chad685
  2. 164DR Congo861
  3. 163Malawi864
  4. 162Guinea869
  5. 161Tanzania870

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,915. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 165 in both
  • 103 · 61rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1989.

  • 164 distinct values among 165

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 1,980. 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 165 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) (1989). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1989

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989?

United States, at 36,756, of the 165 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989 cover?

165.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1989?

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), 1989 the newest?

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

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