Historical and Prehistorical Estimates
J. Bradford DeLong of the Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, has estimated the total GWP in main years between one million years BC and 2000 AD, as shown below. The 2011 nominal GWP estimate is also shown according to the CIA World Factbook. "Billion" in the table below refers to the short scale usage of the term, where 1 billion = 1,000 million = 109. Figures from 2000 and earlier are in 1990 international dollars, while the 2011 estimate is in 2011 U.S. dollars.
| Year | GWP (billions) |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 69,110 (in 2011 U.S. dollars) |
| 2000 | 41,016.69 |
| 1995 | 33,644.33 |
| 1990 | 27,539.57 |
| 1985 | 22,481.11 |
| 1980 | 18,818.46 |
| 1975 | 15,149.42 |
| 1970 | 12,137.94 |
| 1965 | 9,126.98 |
| 1960 | 6,855.25 |
| 1955 | 5,430.44 |
| 1950 | 4,081.81 |
| 1940 | 3,001.36 |
| 1930 | 2,253.81 |
| 1925 | 2,102.88 |
| 1920 | 1,733.67 |
| 1900 | 1,102.96 |
| 1875 | 568.08 |
| 1850 | 359.90 |
| 1800 | 175.24 |
| 1750 | 128.51 |
| 1700 | 99.80 |
| 1650 | 81.74 |
| 1600 | 77.01 |
| 1500 | 58.67 |
| 1400 | 44.92 |
| 1340 | 40.50 |
| 1300 | 32.09 |
| 1250 | 35.58 |
| 1200 | 37.44 |
| 1100 | 39.60 |
| 1000 | 35.31 |
| 900 | 31.68 |
| 800 | 25.23 |
| 700 | 23.44 |
| 600 | 20.86 |
| 500 | 19.92 |
| 400 | 18.44 |
| 350 | 17.93 |
| 200 | 18.54 |
| 14 | 17.50 |
| 1 | 18.50 |
| 200 BC | 17.00 |
| 400 BC | 16.02 |
| 500 BC | 13.72 |
| 800 BC | 9.72 |
| 1000 BC | 6.35 |
| 1600 BC | 4.36 |
| 2000 BC | 3.02 |
| 3000 BC | 1.59 |
| 4000 BC | 0.77 |
| 5000 BC | 0.51 |
| 8000 BC | 0.43 |
| 10,000 BC | 0.37 |
| 25,000 BC | 0.31 |
| 300,000 BC | 0.09 |
| 1,000,000 BC | 0.01 |
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