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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015

2015, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015 covers 166 countries. Qatar is highest, at 159,800; Central African Republic is lowest, at 576. The middle country reads 11,929. Against 2014, 166 values changed (133 up, 33 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 2015

HighestQatar

159,800

LowestCentral African Republic

576

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), 2015, 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), 2015: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia159,800
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe82,984
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia78,261
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia71,320
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia67,674
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe60,071
7LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe54,251
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe53,197
9United StatesUSANorthern America52,808
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia51,942
11OmanOMNWestern Asia49,927
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand48,146
13Hong KongHKGEastern Asia47,654
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe44,941
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe44,913
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe44,405
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe43,782
18CanadaCANNorthern America43,762
19TaiwanTWNEastern Asia42,438
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe41,256
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe39,757
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe39,160
23BahrainBHRWestern Asia38,370
24Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa37,822
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe37,101

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar159,800
  2. 2Norway82,984
  3. 3Kuwait78,261
  4. 4United Arab Emirates71,320
  5. 5Singapore67,674

Lowest

  1. 166Central African Republic576
  2. 165Burundi694
  3. 164DR Congo807
  4. 163Liberia865
  5. 162Niger888

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11,929. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 166 in both
  • 133 · 33rose · 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 2015.

  • 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) (2015). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/2015

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015?

Qatar, at 159,800, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015 cover?

166.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2015?

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), 2015 the newest?

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

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