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Charts

• Access to a financial account or services
• Access to electricity vs. GDP per capita
• Annual growth of GDP per capita
• Average GDP growth rate 1960-2011 versus GDP per capita in 1960
• Average years of schooling vs. Expected years of schooling
• Average years of schooling vs. GDP per capita
• CO₂ emissions per capita vs GDP per capita
• Child mortality vs GDP per capita
• Children per woman by GDP per capita
• Composition of national gross domestic product by sector
• Daily per capita incomes: Mean vs. Median
• Expected years of schooling vs. GDP per capita
• GDPMaddison 2020 world regions stacked area
• GDP in British pounds
• GDP in England(since 1270)
• GDP per capitaPenn World Tables (1950 to 2014)
• GDP per capitaWorld Bank (since 1990)
• GDP per capitaClio Infra (1500 to 2010)
• GDP per capitaMaddison Project Database 2020 (map)
• GDP per capita (inflation- and PPP-adjusted): World Bank data vs. Penn World Table data
• GDP per capita from the World Bank vs. GDP per capita from the Maddison Project
• GDP per capita in England
• GDP per capita in US$World Bank (1960 to 2017)
• GDP per capita vs population density
• GDP per capita vs. Daily median income
• GDP per person employed
• Global Hunger Index vs. GDP per capita
• Government spending vs GDP per capita
• Gross Domestic ProductWorld Bank (since 1960)
• Growth of GDP and trade
• Growth rate of real GDP per employed person
• Hidden Hunger Index vs. GDP per capita
• Historical Index of Human Development (without GDP metric) vs. GDP per capita
• Historical Index of Human Development vs. GDP per capita
• Historical Index of Human Development with GDP metric vs. without GDP metric
• Human Development Index vs. GDP per capita
• Labor force participation rate of men, 65 years and older in the USA
• Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita
• Literacy rate vs. GDP per capita
• Median monthly per capita expenditure around 1985 versus Median monthly per capita expenditure around 2010
• Medical doctors per 1,000 people vs. GDP per capita
• National GDP
• National poverty lines vs. GDP per capita
• Nominal wages, consumer prices, and real wages in the UK
• Output of key industrial sectors in England and the UK
• Output of key industries in England
• Output of key service and industrial sectors in England and the UK
• Price level relative to the US vs GDP per capita
• Productivity per hour worked
• Real GDP per capitaPenn World Tables (1950 to 2014)
• Self-reported Life Satisfaction vs GDP per capita
• Settler mortality faced by European settlers at the time of colonization vs GDP per capita today
• Share of adults who smoke vs GDP per capita
• Share of children who are stunted vs GDP per capita
• Share of consumer expenditure spent on food vs. GDP per capita
• Shares of GDP by economic sector
• Tax revenue vs GDP per capita
• The decline of child mortality by level of prosperity
• Urban population vs. GDP per capita
• World Bank's Income Groups
• World GDP over the last two millennia