The data set is from Penn World Tables (PWT) 5.6. This data set provides only selected variables for years 1965 and 1990.
data( pwt56 )This data frame contains the following variables (columns):
NuOrder Number
CountryCountry Name
year1965 or 1990
YReal GDP chain, international prices of 1985
KCapital stock, international prices of 1985
LNumber of workers, in thousands
The Penn World Table was developed by Robert Summers and Alan Heston (and others) to facilitate consistent national accounts comparisons across countries as well as over time. The data can be used to evaluate the efficiency of economies of various countries in years 1965 and 1990.
Heston, A. and Summers, R. (1991), The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, 327--368.