The Maddison Project, also known as the Maddison Historical Statistics Project, is a project to collate historical

economic statistics Economic statistics is a topic in applied statistics and applied economics that concerns the collection, processing, compilation, dissemination, and analysis of economic data. It is closely related to business statistics and econometrics. It ...

, such as

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is ofte ...

, GDP per capita, and labor productivity. It was launched in March 2010 to continue the work of the late economic historian

Angus Maddison Angus Maddison (6 December 1926 – 24 April 2010) was a distinguished British economist specialising in quantitative macro economic history, including the measurement and analysis of economic growth and development. Maddison lectured at sev ...

. The project is under the Groningen Growth and Development Centre at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

, which also hosts the

Penn World Table The Penn World Table (PWT) is a set of national-accounts data developed and maintained by scholars at the University of California, Davis and thGroningen Growth Development Centreof the University of Groningen to measure real GDP across countries a ...

, another economic statistics project.

Reception

Development economist Branko Milanović (writing for the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

), development economist Morten Jerven, and billionaire philanthropist

Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions ...

have identified the Maddison Project, the Penn World Tables, and World Bank/IMF data (the

World Development Indicators World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides acce ...

), as the three main sources of worldwide economic statistics such as GDP data, with the focus of the Maddison Project being on historical data. Economist

Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was ...

has suggested the Maddison Project as a data source for historical debt, growth, and labor output and productivity data. ''

Our World In Data Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a re ...

'', a website with data-driven discussion of a number of topics related to long-run economic and human development, uses the Maddison Project as one of its data sources.

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* {{official website, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm National accounts Global economic indicators Welfare economics 2010 establishments in the Netherlands

Reception

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