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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018

2018, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018 covers 166 countries. Qatar is highest, at 152,454; Central African Republic is lowest, at 619. The middle country reads 12,044. Against 2017, 166 values changed (137 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 2018

HighestQatar

152,454

LowestCentral African Republic

619

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), 2018, 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), 2018: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia152,454
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe84,740
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia75,164
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia74,518
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia74,206
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe62,185
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe58,083
8United StatesUSANorthern America55,455
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe54,626
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia50,906
11Hong KongHKGEastern Asia50,848
12OmanOMNWestern Asia50,135
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand49,614
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe47,717
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe47,529
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe46,377
17TaiwanTWNEastern Asia45,818
18CanadaCANNorthern America45,088
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe45,003
20IcelandISLNorthern Europe43,321
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe43,032
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe40,472
23BahrainBHRWestern Asia39,501
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe39,431
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe38,705

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar152,454
  2. 2Norway84,740
  3. 3Kuwait75,164
  4. 4Singapore74,518
  5. 5United Arab Emirates74,206

Lowest

  1. 166Central African Republic619
  2. 165Burundi731
  3. 164DR Congo797
  4. 163Liberia842
  5. 162Niger943

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12,044. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 166 in both
  • 137 · 29rose · 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 2018.

  • 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) (2018). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/2018

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018?

Qatar, at 152,454, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018 cover?

166.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2018?

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), 2018 the newest?

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

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