Trend 1951 - 2000. Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices. Penn World Table 6.1: Growth Rate of Real GDP per Capita | Country: Iceland, 1951-2000. Data-Planet™ Statistical Ready Reference by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 070-001-025.

Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices (2015). Penn World Table 6.1: Growth Rate of Real GDP per Capita | Country: Iceland, 1951-2000. Data-Planet™ Statistical Ready Reference by Conquest Systems, Inc. [Data-file]. Dataset-ID: 070-001-025. Dataset: Reports the growth r...

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Main Author: Center For International Comparisons Of Production, Income
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Data-Planet™ Statistical Ready Reference by Conquest Systems, Inc. 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.6068/dp14bad6b537552
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Summary:Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices (2015). Penn World Table 6.1: Growth Rate of Real GDP per Capita | Country: Iceland, 1951-2000. Data-Planet™ Statistical Ready Reference by Conquest Systems, Inc. [Data-file]. Dataset-ID: 070-001-025. Dataset: Reports the growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita (Chain). The underlying chain index is obtained by first applying the component growth rates between each pair of consecutive years, t-1 and t (t=1951 to 2000), to the current price component shares in year t-1 to obtain the domestic absorption (DA) growth rate for each year. (DA is the sum of private consumption, general government consumption and gross domestic investment.) This DA growth rate for each year t is then applied backwards and forwards from 1996, and summed to the constant price net foreign balance to obtain the series. Constant prices allow figures to be represented so that the effects of inflation are removed. Real GDP in the Penn World Table means GDP converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates. (An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as a US dollar has in the United States in a given base year, here, 1996.) The Penn World Table (PWT) displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. Since the regionalization of the United Nations International Comparison Programme (ICP) beginning with the 1980 benchmark, Robert Summers and Alan Heston at the Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania have been using ICP benchmark comparisons as a basis for estimating PPPs (purchasing power parities) for non-benchmark countries and extrapolations backward and forward in time. The Penn World Tables are described in Summers and Heston "The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, 327-368). The current version of Penn World Tables, PWT 6.1, was prepared by Bettina Aten, Heston, and Summers with the assistance of Mark McMullen, Feng Zhu, Sham Shah, and Prajesh Parekh and was released in October 2002. V6.1 provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries and territories, 1950-2000, where available, with 1996 as the reference year. Category: Industry, Business, and Commerce, International Relations and Trade Source: Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices The Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP) was established in 1990 to continue an intellectual tradition begun at Penn during the 1940s by Simon Kuznets. Kuznets was on the faculty and was further elaborating the system of national accounts that he had helped create. Irving B. Kravis, a student of Kuznets’, moved forward research in the area of spatial national accounts, first with his work for the Organization for European Economic Cooperation with Milton Gilbert. Another Kuznets student, Richard Easterlin, engaged in a number of historical studies of the regional growth of the United States economy. CICUP was established as a center that would include these traditions in addition to other areas of research involving cross-country and inter-area comparisons of incomes and prices. https://pwt.sas.upenn.edu/ Subject: Purchasing Power, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Economic Development