Help for package maddison

Type:

Package

Title:

The Maddison Project Database

Version:

0.2

Date:

2022-04-26

Description:

Contains the Maddison Project 2018 database, which provides estimates of GDP per capita for all countries in the world between AD 1 and 2016. See https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/ for more information.

BugReports:

https://github.com/expersso/maddison/issues

License:

CC0

LazyData:

TRUE

Depends:

R(≥ 3.5.0)

URL:

https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/ https://github.com/expersso/maddison

Suggests:

knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2

VignetteBuilder:

knitr

RoxygenNote:

6.1.1

NeedsCompilation:

Packaged:

2022-05-01 13:20:25 UTC; persson

Author:

Eric Persson [aut, cre], Francois Briatte [ctb]

Maintainer:

Eric Persson <expersso5@gmail.com>

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2022-05-01 13:30:02 UTC

Maddison Project Database

Description

This package contains the Maddison Project Database, which contains estimates of GDP per capita for all countries in the world between AD 1 and 2016, in a format amenable to analysis in R.

Usage

maddison

Format

A data frame with 12 variables:

year: Year of estimate
countrycode: Country code used in the original database. Differs from iso3c for only two former countries, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which have no ISO country code.
country: Country name, standardized from those found in the original database using the countrycode package.
cgdppc: Current GDP per capita in 2011 U.S. dollars
rgdpnapc: Real GDP per capita in 2011 U.S. dollars
pop: Population
i_cig: Whether observation is extrapolated/interpolated/benchmark
i_bm: Type of benchmark estimate
iso2c: Country ISO-2C code (missing for Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia)
iso3c: Country ISO-3C code (missing for Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia)
continent: Country continent
region: Country region

The database was last updated in 2018.

As per instructions on the Maddison Project website, please site the data as follows:

When using these data (for whatever purpose), please make the following reference:

- Maddison Project Database, version 2018. Bolt, Jutta, Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2018), "Rebasing 'Maddison': new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development", Maddison Project Working paper 10. <https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/research>

- For the references to the original research on individual countries, see Appendix A of Bolt et al. (2018).

This package is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the Maddison Project.