File:Gdp real per capita many country.png

Summary
Graph of gross domestic product of several countries over a long historical period. The y-axis is the logarithm (base 10) of real gross domestic product per capita normalised to a reference year of 1917. The x-axis is the year.

Countries: England, U.S.A., Soviet Union, Brazil, and Japan.

The data is from the Maddison project, historical gdp data. (Bolt, J. and J. L. van Zanden (2013). The First Update of the Maddison Project; Re-Estimating Growth Before 1820. Maddison Project Working Paper 4.) home page, xslx spreadsheet.

The Maddison project data are per capita gdp in 1990 international GK dollars. My calculation was to first divide all gdp values by the 1917 gdp values to obtain the normalised gdp; and then to take the logarithms.

The calculation was done using the Libre Office open source software. The graph was generated by that software also. To save it I took a screenshot, and then cropped it.

The reference year of 1917 was chosen for purposes of comparing the USSR-territories' economic performance during the socialist period (1917-91) with that of other countries. Its performance was quite good.

- - - This graph was created by Communpedia user Tribal, and I am putting it in the public domain. Thankyou to the Maddison project for their data and to Libre Office for the software.

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The numerical data used to create this graph can be found at Gdp data.csv.

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