Regional GDP per capita and population for all 8 Maddison regions
Returns Maddison Project regional aggregates: GDP per capita in 2011 international dollars (PPP) and population in thousands of people for each of the 8 analytical regions (East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, South and South East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Western Offshoots). Use the region= query to restrict the response to a single region. The Maddison groups the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand into Western Offshoots; north-america is accepted as an alias for that bloc. Regional GDP per capita is a population-weighted average of member country values. Cells are null where not every member country reports for that year. Pre-1950 observations follow the Maddison milestone grid; annual from 1950 through 2022. Published under CC BY 4.0 by Bolt and van Zanden at the University of Groningen.
Query parameters
Optional region slug. Accepted: western-europe, eastern-europe, north-america (alias for Western Offshoots), western-offshoots, latin-america, mena, sub-saharan-africa, east-asia, south-and-southeast-asia. Omit to return all 8 regions.
Optional region slug. Accepted: western-europe, eastern-europe, north-america (alias for Western Offshoots), western-offshoots, latin-america, mena, sub-saharan-africa, east-asia, south-and-southeast-asia. Omit to return all 8 regions.
Inclusive start year (integer). Regional series begins at 1820.
Inclusive start year (integer). Regional series begins at 1820.
Inclusive end year (integer). Defaults to 2022.
Inclusive end year (integer). Defaults to 2022.
Response
One block per region with year-ordered gdppc and pop observations.
Example response
{
"data": {
"regions": [
{
"region": "Western Europe",
"region_slug": "western-europe",
"observations": [
{
"year": 2022,
"gdppc": 41323.03,
"pop": 428952.51
}
],
"count": 78
}
],
"region_count": 8,
"start_year": 1820,
"end_year": 2022
},
"meta": {
"endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
"data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
"response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
"provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
"source": "sugra_crypto",
"attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
"fallback_chain": [
"sugra_crypto",
"sugra_finance"
]
}
}