Have you ever wondered what the price of gold was in 1907? Or what the GDP was in 1932? Presented here are many useful historic data sets that we developed in order to answer such questions. Some of these are currently hosted on EH.Net.
Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791
An exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another currency. The exchange rate presented here is the price of the British pound in U.S. dollars, that is, the number of U.S. dollars per British pound. This is the traditional way in which the re …
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This dataset contains the main results of the 2005 PPP comparison for the 46 countries that participated in the 2005 round of the Eurostat-OECD Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Programme and for the 10 countries that participated in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Comparison Programme fo …
The Quick Reference tables available here show the most recent World Bank estimates of total population, gross domestic product (GDP), and gross national income (GNI). The tables include a ranking of countries both by total size and in per capita terms.
Measuring the size of economies
There ar …
The Quick Reference tables available here show the most recent World Bank estimates of total population, gross domestic product (GDP), and gross national income (GNI). The tables include a ranking of countries both by total size and in per capita terms.
Measuring the size of economies
There ar …
The following list shows the countries of the world, according to international standard ISO 3166-1. Selected standard codes for the countries are shown. There is also an indication of which entities are or are not independent countries.