Continuous national gross domestic product (GDP) time series for 195 countries: past observations (1850–2005) harmonized with future projections according to the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (2006–2100)

Geiger, Tobias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-847-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-847-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-847-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

27 Apr 2018

| 27 Apr 2018

Continuous national gross domestic product (GDP) time series for 195 countries: past observations (1850–2005) harmonized with future projections according to the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (2006–2100)

Tobias Geiger

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-847-2018-supplement

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Continuous national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) time series for 195 countries: past observations (1850-2005) harmonized with future projections according the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (2006-2100) Geiger, Tobias and Frieler, Katja https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.003

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National economic development is usually measured as gross domestic product (GDP), a quantity that has only been regularly available since 1960. However, many users of economic data require longer time series that are easily accessible and ready-to-use, also by non-experts. This current paper unites various sources of sparsely available GDP estimates from earlier time periods to provide continuous and complete coverage of national GDP for 195 countries from 1850 to the present.