pwt8 (version 8.1-1)

pwt8.1: Penn World Table 8.1

Description

Relative levels of income, output, inputs, productivity for 167 countries between 1950 and 2011 (base year: 2005).

Usage

data("pwt8.1")

Format

A data frame with 10,354 observations of 39 variables.

Source

Penn World Table 8.1, http://dx.doi.org/10.15141/S5NP4S.

Details

The Penn World Table (version 8.1) is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, inputs, productivity for 167 countries between 1950 and 2011. For more details see Feenstra, Inklaar, and Timmer (2015ab) provided at http://www.ggdc.net/pwt/. PWT 8.1 is an updated version of PWT 8.0, covering the same countries and period, see also pwt8.0.

References

Feenstra RC, Inklaar R, Timmer MP (2015). The Next Generation of the Penn World Table, American Economic Review, forthcoming. URL http://www.ggdc.net/pwt/.

See Also

pwt8.0