pwt6.1: Penn World Table 6.1

Description

Purchasing power parity and national income accounts in international prices for 168 countries over 1950--2000 (1996 as base year).

Usage

data("pwt6.1")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 8,568 observations of 28 variables.

country: factor with country name.
isocode: factor with ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code.
year: year.
pop: population.
xrat: exchange rate (US dollars).
ppp: purchasing power parity over GDP.
cgdp: real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita (US dollars in current prices).
cc: consumption share of per capita GDP (% in current prices).
cg: government share of per capita GDP (% in current prices).
ci: investment share of per capita GDP (% in current prices).
p: price level of GDP (US=100 in current prices).
pc: price level of consumption (US=100 in current prices).
pg: price level of government (US=100 in current prices).
pi: price level of investment (US=100 in current prices).
openc: openness (% in current prices).
cgnp: ratio of GNP to GDP (% in current prices).
csave: current savings (% in current prices).
y: per capita GDP relative to the United States (US=100 in current prices).
rgdpl: real GDP per capita (Laspeyres index, US dollars in 1996 prices).
rgdpch: real GDP per capita (chain-weighted index, US dollars in 1996 prices).
rgdpeqa: real GDP per equivalent adult (chain-weighted index, US dollars in 1996 prices).
rgdpwok: real GDP per worker (chain-weighted index, US dollars in 1996 prices).
rgdptt: real gross domestic income (rgdpl adjusted for terms of trade changes, US dollars in 1996 prices).
openk: openness in constant prices (% in 1996 prices).
kc: consumption share of rgdpl (% in 1996 prices).
kg: government share of rgdpl (% in 1996 prices).
ki: investment share of rgdpl (% in 1996 prices).
grgdpch: growth rate of real GDP per capita (constant prices: chain series).

Source

Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP), October 2002. URL http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/.

Details

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950--2000. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

This version contains data from PWT version 6.1. As far as possible the original data from PWT has been preserved. For example, percentages have been maintained rather than converted to fractions.