Description Usage Value References Examples
The 2018 Maddison Project Database provides information on comparative economic growth and income levels over the very long run. This database covers 169 countries up to 2016.
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A tidy tibble
containing 6 columns.
The key
column agreggates:
real_gdp_pc
: Real GDP per capita (US$ 2011) with multiple benchmarks. This is a suitable indicator for cross-country income comparisons;
real_gdp_pc_2011
: Real GDP per capita (US$ 2011 benchmark), which is advisable for cross-country growth comparisons; and
pop
: population in thousands.
Unfortunately, for some periods of time the data had to be estimated. In those cases, i_cig
and i_bm
provide the type of method used. NA
means that no method was need.
Maddison Project Database, version 2018. Bolt, Jutta, Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Jan Luiten van Zand (2018), "Rebasing Maddison: new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development", Maddison Project Working Paper 10
For the references to the original research on individual countries, see Appendix A of Bolt et al. (2018).
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