Maddison Project
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The Maddison Project, also known as the Maddison Historical Statistics Project, is a project to collate historical economic statistics, such as GDP, GDP per capita, and labor productivity.[1][2][3] It was launched in March 2010 to continue the work of the late economic historian Angus Maddison. The project is under the Groningen Growth and Development Centre at the University of Groningen,[2] which also hosts the Penn World Table, another economic statistics project.[4]
Summary
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Start date | March 2010 for the explicit Maddison Project[1] 1960s for the original work by Angus Maddison that was the genesis of the project.[5]Template:Rp |
| Data versioning | Only one update released as Maddison Project, published January 2013 with data till 2010.[5] Possibly multiple versions published by Angus Maddison. |
| Focus | Historical: identify general ballparks and trends in living standards and economic growth over long time periods. Provide better insight into the timeline of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and other regions that were historically similarly situated, such as China and India. |
Data description
The only update released by the Maddison Project was published in January 2013, with data till 2010.[5] The underlying data is available as an Excel spreadsheet.[6]
Data dimensions and metrics
The data presented in the Maddison Project database is a partial function where:
- The inputs (the dimensions) are country and year.
- The only output (the metric) is real GDP per capita, expressed in 1990 international Geary–Khamis dollars.
Reception
| Person | Affiliation | Qualification | Opinion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branko Milanović[3] | World Bank | Development economist | Only source for long-run national GDPs going back to 1920s Also, differing conclusions about Chinese GDP and growth rates due to higher estimates of their price levels |
| Morten Jerven[7] | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Development economist | One of three main sources of GDP numbers |
| Bill Gates[8] | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Smart well-read person | Mostly echoes Jerven |
| Paul Krugman[9] | New York Times | Economist, columnist | Data source for historical debt, growth, and labor output and productivity data. |
See also
- Penn World Table
- World Development Indicators
- The World Economy: Historical Statistics, a 2004 book by Angus Maddison that is an early precursor of the work done by the Maddison Project
- Angus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)
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