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Growth since the 17th century
- Updated at
- 29. May 2022
- Description
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- Visualizing growth across the world since the 17th century by real gross domestic product per capita (2011 US$).
- The visualization is very slow when all countries are visible. Select a subset by clicking on countries in the legend under "Country". Hold shift to select multiple.
- Data source
- 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
- Data downloaded from
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Our World in Data
- Book chapter
- 1.3 History’s hockey stick: Growth in income