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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991

1991, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991 covers 165 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 39,198; Chad is lowest, at 703. The middle country reads 5,616. Against 1990, 165 values changed (85 up, 80 down), 1 left.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1991

HighestLuxembourg

39,198

LowestChad

703

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), 1991, 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), 1991: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe39,198
2United StatesUSANorthern America36,464
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe34,129
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe31,128
5JapanJPNEastern Asia30,837
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe29,915
7CanadaCANNorthern America29,152
8Hong KongHKGEastern Asia29,009
9FranceFRAWestern Europe28,294
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe28,258
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe28,127
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe27,848
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe27,690
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe27,614
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand26,861
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe26,770
17ItalyITASouthern Europe26,570
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe25,792
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe25,175
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia23,637
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand21,126
22IsraelISRWestern Asia20,913
23SpainESPSouthern Europe19,958
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19,254
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe17,950

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg39,198
  2. 2United States36,464
  3. 3Switzerland34,129
  4. 4Norway31,128
  5. 5Japan30,837

Lowest

  1. 165Chad703
  2. 164DR Congo738
  3. 163Ethiopia811
  4. 162Guinea827
  5. 161Niger866

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5,616. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 165values changed, of 165 in both
  • 85 · 80rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kuwait9,757 → 6,311−3,446
  • Croatia12,948 → 10,296−2,652
  • Georgia12,140 → 9,535−2,605
  • Iraq3,918 → 1,519−2,399
  • Latvia15,806 → 13,775−2,031
− United Arab Emirates

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 1991.

  • 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) (1991). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1991

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991?

Luxembourg, at 39,198, of the 165 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991 cover?

165.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1991?

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), 1991 the newest?

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

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