income_maddison_2020: Maddison Project Historical GDP and Population dataset

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Maddison Project Historical GDP and Population dataset

Description

The Maddison Project, last updated in 2018, contains historical population and real GDP per capita data on countries from 1 to 2016.

Usage

income_maddison_2020

Format

A data table with 340704 rows and 8 variables:

country_code

ISO 3166 country code

country_name

ISO 3166 country name

year

year (1 to 2016)

population

mid-year population

gdppc

preferred measure of real GDP per capita

pop

preferred measure of population

gdp

gdppc * pop

Source

Data sources:

• DATA: Maddison 2020 dataset: (see Sources sheet for some sources): <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2020>

• INFO: Maddison 2020 working paper: <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/publications/wp15.pdf>

• DATA: Maddison 2018 dataset: <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2018>

• INFO: Maddison 2018 working paper: (see table 1 for some sources): <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/html_publications/memorandum/gd174.pdf>

• DATA: Maddison 2013 dataset: <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2013>

• INFO: Maddison 2013 working paper: <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/publications/wp4.pdf>

• DATA: Maddison 2010 dataset: <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-database-2010>

• INFO: Maddison 2010 archived website: <https://web.archive.org/web/20211102093357/http

• INFO: "older additions [sources] can be found in an earlier update paper, and in Maddison's work"

• INFO: A review of Maddison's original data quality by a centrist: <https://nofuturepast.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/gdp-reconstructions-for-the-early-modern-period/>

• INFO: Another review focused on Portugal by a centrist: <https://nofuturepast.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/on-the-discrepancies-between-the-original-maddison-dataset-and-more-recent-gdp-reconstructions/>

References

Maddison Project Database, version 2018. Bolt, Jutta, Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2018), "Rebasing 'Maddison': new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development", Maddison Project Working paper 10

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