GDP per capita since 1820

GDP per person over two centuries, adjusted for prices across countries and time.

The Maddison Project Database is the longest series of GDP per person there is: for some countries it reaches back to the Middle Ages, for most to the nineteenth century. The values are in international dollars of 2011, so they are comparable across countries and years. The project, founded by the economic historian Angus Maddison and continued at the University of Groningen, pieces together the work of hundreds of historians; the early figures are estimates, and the recent ones follow the national accounts. Our World in Data republishes the database.

• Economy
• GDP
• Long run
• Maddison
• Economic history
• Country
• Year