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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019

2019, as GGDC’s 2023 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019 covers 166 countries. Qatar is highest, at 150,732; Central African Republic is lowest, at 624. The middle country reads 12,515. Against 2018, 166 values changed (121 up, 45 down), the same countries are covered.

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Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison) · Data for 2019

HighestQatar

150,732

LowestCentral African Republic

624

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), 2019, 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), 2019: every country, as published by Maddison Project, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia150,732
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe85,115
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia74,650
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia74,396
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia73,748
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe62,449
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe59,734
8United StatesUSANorthern America56,469
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe54,752
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia50,123
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand49,815
12Hong KongHKGEastern Asia49,631
13OmanOMNWestern Asia48,597
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe48,239
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe48,143
16TaiwanTWNEastern Asia47,200
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe46,762
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe45,434
19CanadaCANNorthern America45,284
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe43,489
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe43,137
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe41,156
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe39,875
24BahrainBHRWestern Asia39,500
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe39,113

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar150,732
  2. 2Norway85,115
  3. 3Singapore74,650
  4. 4United Arab Emirates74,396
  5. 5Kuwait73,748

Lowest

  1. 166Central African Republic624
  2. 165Burundi739
  3. 164DR Congo806
  4. 163Liberia807
  5. 162Niger964

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12,515. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 166 in both
  • 121 · 45rose · 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 2019.

  • 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) (2019). Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/historical-gdp-per-capita/2019

06112 held

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07Questions

Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Historical GDP per capita in Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019?

Qatar, at 150,732, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019 cover?

166.

Where can I download Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

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