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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999

1999, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999 covers 166 countries. Norway is highest, at 51,129; DR Congo is lowest, at 452. The middle country reads 6,421. Against 1998, 166 values changed (130 up, 36 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 1999

HighestNorway

51,129

LowestDR Congo

452

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), 1999, 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 166 countries · select a heading to sort

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1NorwayNORNorthern Europe51,129
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe47,061
3United StatesUSANorthern America44,576
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia42,372
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe41,092
6QatarQATWestern Asia40,135
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe37,523
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe36,409
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand35,551
10IrelandIRLNorthern Europe35,377
11CanadaCANNorthern America35,346
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia35,156
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe33,608
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia33,351
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe32,705
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe32,572
17JapanJPNEastern Asia32,395
18FranceFRAWestern Europe32,285
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe32,187
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe32,088
21ItalyITASouthern Europe31,340
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia31,134
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe30,987
24United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe30,933
25Puerto RicoPRICaribbean26,186

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Norway51,129
  2. 2Luxembourg47,061
  3. 3United States44,576
  4. 4United Arab Emirates42,372
  5. 5Switzerland41,092

Lowest

  1. 166DR Congo452
  2. 165Afghanistan519
  3. 164Chad734
  4. 163Niger737
  5. 162Ethiopia762

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6,421. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 166 in both
  • 130 · 36rose · 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 1999.

  • 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 166 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) (1999). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/1999

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999?

Norway, at 51,129, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999 cover?

166.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 1999?

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), 1999 the newest?

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

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