Country, regional and world GDP in current US Dollars ($). Regional means collections of countries e.g. Europe & Central Asia.

Data

The data is sourced from the World Bank (specifically this dataset) which in turn lists as sources: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

Note that there are a variety of different GDP indicators on offer from the World Bank including:

• GDP in current USD
• GDP in constant USD (2000)
• GDP, PPP (constant 2005 international $)
• GDP (constant LCU)

Data notes

• data/gdp.csv is regenerated automatically each month by scripts/process.py.
• data/top-economies.csv is derived from gdp.csv by the same script: it covers the 10 largest economies (by latest-year GDP) from 2000 onward, with values in USD trillions.

Preparation

Process is recorded and automated in python script:

scripts/process.py

Automation

Up-to-date (auto-updates every month) gdp dataset could be found on the datahub.io: https://datahub.io/core/gdp

License

This dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The underlying data originates from the World Bank, which publishes its open data under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: World Bank – World Development Indicators.