Nations that had or will have the highest per capita GDP in these years Quiz by WorldWhiz

Can you name the nations that had or will have the highest per capita GDP in these years?

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All GDP estimates are per capita in current PPP US$. For past years, imagine that our present borders were placed on a map of the world in that year. Which nations would have the highest p/c GDP?
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A.D. 1
$454
$453
$453
$452
$452
$452
$452
$452
$452
$452

A.D. 1500
$1,100
$875
$761
$738
$727
$714
$707
$695
$688
$661

A.D. 1900
$4,492
$4,298
$4,091
$4,013
$3,833
$3,731
$3,424
$3,017
$2,985
$2,911

A.D. 1960
$33,104
$28,813
$22,433
$12,457
$11,328
$9,785
$9,646
$9,465
$8,812
$8,791

A.D. 1990
$23,201
$22,603
$21,482
$18,872
$18,789
$18,662
$18,466
$18,452
$17,695
$17,541

A.D. 2015 (Projected)
$64,519
$51,470
$48,645
$42,407
$38,526
$38,249
$38,063
$36,830
$35,694
$34,677

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	WorldWhiz:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT		4 points
	Before anyone asks, my source is a book--"The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live". I have reproduced here what is in this collection of maps. NOTE: For past years, imagine that our present borders were placed on a map of the world in that year. Which countries would have the highest per capita GDP?

	laughing_mariner:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT		6 points
	Mind-blowing! Thanks so much for this.

	thamesx2:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT		3 points
	Awesome quiz. I was expecting places like Mexico and Peru for the older dates because of the vast native empires.

	joebobs:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 01:47 GMT		12 points
	No Iran and Iraq for AD 1? The wealth of Persia? :(

	foyherald:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT		6 points
	For the projection figures (immediately ignoring Taiwan and Hong Kong) just what exactly are Malta and Luxembourg going to produce to make them so high on the list?

	thenastyaetolian:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 14:02 GMT		4 points
	joebobs: Persia ceased to exist when it was conquered by Alexander the Great and during the subsequent Hellenistic period... However, I was nonetheless expecting Iran and Iraq to be on the list!

	Powersimm:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 17:08 GMT		1 point
	foyherald: it's gdp per capita.

	Eliot:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 08:12 GMT		3 points
	@foyherald: I was guessing that it's a matter of countries like Canada, Denmark, France and Sweden slipping down on the list by 2015, so that some other country that is currently lower down is going to rise up into the top ranks by 2015. Anyway, 2015 is 61 months away so I was also guessing that they're projected to produce whatever it is that they already produce.

	joewhitey:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 18:34 GMT		-2 points
	@thenastyaetolian and joebobs: In AD 1 it would have been Parthia. Parthia had to have been richer than Germany considered that it was a trading cross roads and Germany had just been conquered by Rome and was a backwoods.

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	WorldWhiz:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 20:35 GMT		4 points
	@sinatra22: For previous years, imagine that our present borders were placed on a map of the world in that year (for example A.D. 1). What would the (per capita) GDP for the people be in what is now South Korea?

	RS89:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 05:54 GMT		10 points
	Hong Kong and Greenland are not countries, and should not be treated as separate entities.

	Probus:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 15:49 GMT		3 points
	I seriously question the reliability of this source. The CIA World Factbook gives an estimated GDP per capita in 2008 for Malta of about $24,000 so that would mean a 75% increase by 2015 to arrive at the figure quoted. The IMF statistics suggest that on a Purchasing Power Parity basis the figure will be about $26k by 2014 while the corresponding figure for Taiwan is around $35k!!

	urbanmapper:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 18:17 GMT		1 point
	From wikipedia (I know it's not the best sourse, but) "Three_Kingdoms_of_Korea" article, "Evidence indicates Goguryeo was the most advanced, and likely the first established, of the three kingdoms." This one was more North Korean than South Korean, so I wonder whether both should be the answer, or just North Korea?

	batmann:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 19:12 GMT		2 points
	bangladesh? wow didn't see that coming.

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	WorldWhiz:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT		2 points
	@treemeister2: You should really read the note at the top of the page and the previous comments before you post your own. If you haven't done so yet, READ THEM NOW. Ugh.

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	Sjoerd:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT		1 point
	very nice

	EGaffney:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 16:07 GMT		2 points
	WorldWhiz, I would put the source in the editor box even though there's no link - it's a great quiz, but my inner sceptic was suspicious at first! (e.g. about South Korea rather than North Korea.) And yeah, people should read.

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	pcvrs410:	Feb 18th, 2010 at 22:32 GMT		1 point
	Why do I always forget Switzerland??? Excellent quiz.

	JayZed:	May 19th, 2010 at 13:30 GMT		4 points
	Nice idea, but I'm very sceptical indeed about the methodology used by your source.

	folio1701:	May 19th, 2010 at 14:31 GMT		5 points
	Does your atlas say why in wildly diverse countries everyone made around $450 a year?

	gowhere:	May 19th, 2010 at 17:16 GMT		2 points
	I think the source's predictions are already out of date, and don't take into account the longer term effects of the financial crisis. The Irish economy is crashing and I don't think it's going to recover by 2015.

	demonstah:	May 19th, 2010 at 21:45 GMT		1 point
	@JayZed - it sounds like it's the quizmaker's methodology, not the source.

	tbwilson:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 20:32 GMT		5 points
	Interesting! The 1 AD ones are a little odd - It's strange that Germany (then a bunch of warring chiefdoms with simple economies) would have more wealth than Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, or anything else in the northern Near East - a crossroads of many powerful civilizations and empires. I was expecting something in the vicinity of the Horn of Africa to show up as well, to match the Axumite empire and the growing Indian Ocean trade. I'm guessing Mexico and Peru were out of the picture since their civilizations were based on stone, which is worth much less than iron.

	professor88:	Mar 16th, 2011 at 19:50 GMT		2 points
	Sorry guys, but the 2015 estimations do not make any sense to me. There are only 4-5 years to go and we aren't anywhere near this ranking!

	Atario:	Mar 17th, 2011 at 10:51 GMT		0 points
	Seriously. Malta??

	Mistakenblood:	May 21st, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		2 points
	What is going to happen in the next 5 years that is going to cause Luxembourg's per capita GDP to be cut in half?

	british:	May 26th, 2011 at 04:29 GMT		-2 points
	i dont see a source..and i dont think this is reliable or even correct. (2015)

	british:	May 26th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT		-2 points
	ahh now i see the source. didnt see the comment.

	Aristocles:	Sep 27th, 2011 at 12:13 GMT		4 points
	No way is this correct. Germany in 1 AD was an illiterate, road-free, and underdeveloped land run by barbarians who rarely if ever had the ability to make stone buildings, let alone currency and large-scale trade.