Evolution of GDP per Capita , 1500-2016

Evolution of Total Population, 1500-2000

Evolution of Global Extreme Poverty Cost of Basic Needs, 1820-2018

Evolution of Height, 1850-1990

Evolution of Numeracy (Total), 1820-1960

Evolution of Inflation, 1586-2010

Raking and performance of all available indicators for the entire period covered by the data (download all indicators)

Period Best performing Worst performing Best ranking Worst ranking
1820-1869 50 Gender Equality
of Numeracy
Labourers Real Wage Regulation of Chief
Executive Recruitment (XRREG)
Pigs per Capita
1870-1919 56 Inflation Competitiveness of
Participations (PARCOMP)
Total Num. of Goats
Biodiversity -
naturalness
Pigs per Capita
1920-1959 66 Political Participation Total CO2 Emissions Sex Ratio Pigs per Capita
1960-2010 73 Bauxite Production Total CO2 Emissions Gender-equal Inheritance Pigs per Capita
Overall     77 GDP per Capita Pigs per Capita Biodiversity -
naturalness
Pigs per Capita
         

Evolution of Total Gross Central Government Debt as a Percentage of GDP, 1854-2010

Evolution of Average Years of Education, 1870-2010

Evolution of Labourers Real Wage, 1820-2006

Evolution of Book Titles per Capita, 1500-1996

Evolution of Global Extreme Poverty Dollar a Day, 1820-2018

Caribbean

Anguilla[No Data]

Antigua and Barbuda1500 (5)-2013 (21)

Aruba[No Data]

Bahamas1500 (5)-2013 (23)

Barbados1500 (5)-2016 (28)

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba[No Data]

British Virgin Islands[No Data]

Cayman Islands[No Data]

Cuba1500 (8)-2016 (35)

Curaçao[No Data]

Dominica1500 (5)-2016 (21)

Dominican Republic1500 (6)-2018 (38)

Grenada1500 (5)-2013 (21)

Guadeloupe[No Data]

Haiti1500 (6)-2018 (36)

Jamaica1500 (6)-2018 (35)

Martinique[No Data]

Montserrat[No Data]

In 2010, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a subsidy to the Clio Infra project, of which Jan Luiten van Zanden was the main applicant and which is hosted by the International Institute of Social History (IISH). Clio Infra has set up a number of interconnected databases containing worldwide data on social, economic, and institutional indicators for the past five centuries, with special attention to the past 200 years. These indicators allow research into long-term development of worldwide economic growth and inequality.

Global inequality is one of the key problems of the contemporary world. Some countries have (recently) become wealthy, other countries have remained poor. New theoretical developments in economics - such as new institutional economics, new economic geography, and new growth theory - and the rise of global economic and social history require such processes to be studied on a worldwide scale. Clio Infra provides datasets for the most important indicators. Economic and social historians from around the world have been working together in thematic collaboratories, in order to collect and share their knowledge concerning the relevant indicators of economic performance and its causes. The collected data have been standardized, harmonized, and stored for future use. New indicators to study inequality have been developed. The datasets are accessible through the Clio Infra portal which also offers possibilities for visualization of the data. Clio Infra offers the opportunity to greatly enhance our understanding of the origins, causes and character of the process of global inequality.