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Maddison Project

Also known as Maddison Historical Statistics

Maddison's work contains the Project Dataset with estimates of GDP per capita for all countries in the world between 1820 and 2010 in a format amenable to analysis in R. The database was last updated in January 2013. The update incorporates much of the latest research in the field, and presents new estimates of economic growth in the world economic between AD 1 and 2010 The Maddison Project database presented builts on Angus Maddison's original dataset. The original estimates are kept intact, and only revised or adjusted when there is more and better information available. Angus Maddison's unaltered final dataset remains available on the Original Maddison Homepage https://www.rug.nl/ggdc…

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About this database

Websitehttps://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/
SubjectsHumanities and Social Sciences · Social and Behavioural Sciences · Economics
Last updated2026-09-11

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