Gross World Product, 1950-2005

Year

Total
Trillion 2005 Dollars

Per Person
2005 Dollars

1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

7.4
7.9
8.3
8.6
8.9
9.4
9.9
10.3
10.6
11.1
11.6
12.0
12.6
13.1
14.1
14.7
15.7
16.2
17.1
18.1
18.8
19.6
20.5
21.9
22.3
22.7
23.9
24.8
25.8
26.7
26.8
27.4
27.7
28.5
29.8
31.0
32.1
33.3
34.8
36.1
37.1
37.7
38.4
39.3
40.7
42.2
43.9
45.7
46.9
48.6
50.9
52.2
53.8
55.9
58.7
61.0

2,923
3,087
3,157
3,247
3,297
3,392
3,530
3,596
3,650
3,734
3,828
3,905
4,008
4,099
4,310
4,413
4,596
4,670
4,826
4,991
5,092
5,208
5,318
5,572
5,584
5,568
5,750
5,873
6,018
6,104
6,043
6,064
6,018
6,094
6,269
6,390
6,505
6,638
6,826
6,957
7,031
7,024
7,057
7,107
7,253
7,405
7,600
7,813
7,916
8,096
8,371
8,475
8,623
8,853
9,186
9,440

Source: Compiled by Earth Policy Institute with 1950-1979 from

Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2001 , CD-Rom (Washington, DC:
2001) (Worldwatch update of Angus Maddison, Monitoring the
World Economy 1820-1992 (Paris: OECD, 1995)); 1980-2005
from International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook
Database , at
www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2006/02/data/index.htm, updated
September 2006; United Nations, World Population Prospects:
The 2004 Revision (New York: 2005); U.S. Commerce
Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, "Implicit Price
Deflators for Gross Domestic Product," Table 1.1.9, revised 30
August 2006, at www.bea.gov.

Gross World Product, 1950-2005

70

Trillion 2005 Dollars

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

Source: IMF, Worldwatch

2000

2010

Gross World Product Per Person, 1950-2005

10,000
9,000
8,000

2005 Dollars

7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

Source: IMF, Worldwatch, UN

2000

2010