Kuwait vs Norway: History’s hockey stick: Real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale
Kuwait
65,521 2011 US$
in 2018
Norway
84,580 2011 US$
in 2018
Kuwait rank
5th
Norway rank
2nd
History’s hockey stick: Real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale over time
- Kuwait
- Norway
How they compare
Norway currently reports 84,580 2011 US$ against 65,521 2011 US$ in Kuwait, a difference of 19,059 2011 US$.
That makes Norway's figure about 1.3 times Kuwait's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kuwait ahead.
Kuwait ranks 5th and Norway ranks 2nd of 145 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Kuwait averaged higher in 3 and Norway in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Kuwait | Norway | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 49,301 2011 US$ | 9,920 2011 US$ | 39,380 2011 US$ | Kuwait |
| 1960s | 39,094 2011 US$ | 13,605 2011 US$ | 25,489 2011 US$ | Kuwait |
| 1970s | 36,263 2011 US$ | 19,343 2011 US$ | 16,920 2011 US$ | Kuwait |
| 1980s | 14,404 2011 US$ | 26,639 2011 US$ | 12,235 2011 US$ | Norway |
| 1990s | 22,888 2011 US$ | 39,573 2011 US$ | 16,685 2011 US$ | Norway |
| 2000s | 56,755 2011 US$ | 66,258 2011 US$ | 9,503 2011 US$ | Norway |
| 2010s | 71,828 2011 US$ | 82,091 2011 US$ | 10,263 2011 US$ | Norway |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher history’s hockey stick: real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale, Kuwait or Norway?
- Norway, at 84,580 2011 US$ against 65,521 2011 US$ in Kuwait as of 2018.
- What is the difference in history’s hockey stick: real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale between Kuwait and Norway?
- 19,059 2011 US$, with Norway ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and Norway?
- 69 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2018.
- How do Kuwait and Norway rank globally for history’s hockey stick: real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale?
- Kuwait ranks 5th and Norway ranks 2nd of 145 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Maddison Project Database (2018) – processed by Our World in Data, published as History’s hockey stick: Real gross domestic product per capita using the ratio scale. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Unit 1 'The capitalist revolution’ Section 1.3 'History's Hockey Stick: Growth in income' in The CORE Team, The Economy. Available at: https://tinyco.re/28126370 [Figure 1.1b]