GDP per capita of major combatants before and after WWII?
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By 1940 for the allies the national GDP figures were approximately (in dollars):
- 27.51 billion of UK
- 18.28 billion for france
- 10 billion for the low countries
- 41.97 billion of Germany
- 8.68 billion for italy
- 84.7 billion of the US
Source: http://historum.com/blogs/guaporense/994-economics-world-war-two.html
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The most comprehensive source for historical GDP per capita data is the Angus Maddison database. Here is the latest (Jan 2013) update: Excel file link.
I extract from this Maddison database 1930-1950 GDP per capita data for the major combatants: Google spreadsheet. I include only France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the USSR, the USA, China, and Japan. No data for China, 1939-1949 and the USSR, 1941-1945.
Chart below:
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I know this is an old post but for some time I've wanted to revisit this topic, so I did some digging. It turns out OECD has a data table (2003. The World Economy: Historical Statistics (Paris: OECD)) that I've seen as a source in a paper from Berkeley and London School of Economics (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/sfb-649-papers/2008-68/PDF/68.pdf). I'm guessing the source is reliable enough for most purposes.
Here is the link: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/historical_statistics/horizontal-file_03-2007.xls
And for the people too lazy to make their own graph, here is the GDP per capita for the major powers. I left out China because although it was a big country involved in the war, I didn't want their low numbers to mess up the graph.
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Germany was indeed poorer than UK before the war but not far behind France.
I find it interesting how WW2 was detrimental to many of the economies on the short run but after a decade or two they all caught up to their trend lines.
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