GDP (current LCU) - NY.GDP.MKTP.CN

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Info

Last observation: 2025 (N = 186)

First observation: 1960 (N = 114)

Last data update: 16 aoû 2026, 20:06. Last compile: 17 aoû 2026, 23:33

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
NY.GDP.MKTP.CN |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) %>%
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `GDP 1 (Bn)` = first(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `GDP 2 (Bn)` = last(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .)) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(Iso2c)),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../bib/flags/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

2018 GDP by Country

Code 
NY.GDP.MKTP.CN |>
  right_join(iso2c |>
              filter((region != "Aggregates") & (region != "NA")), 
             by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) |>
  summarise(`GDP (Bn)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-`GDP (Bn)`) %>%
  mutate(`GDP (Bn)` = `GDP (Bn)` %>% paste0("$ ", ., " Bn")) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(Iso2c)),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../bib/flags/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

2018 GDP by Country and Aggregates

Code 
NY.GDP.MKTP.CN |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) |>
  summarise(`GDP (Bn)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-`GDP (Bn)`) %>%
  mutate(`GDP (Bn)` = `GDP (Bn)` %>% paste0("$ ", ., " Bn")) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

Illustration

Euro Area vs. US

Base 100

Code 
NY.GDP.MKTP.CN |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("XC", "US"),
         date >= as.Date("2008-01-01")) |>
  group_by(iso2c) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(value = 100*value/value[1]) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Iso2c" = "country")) |>
  mutate(color = ifelse(iso2c == "US", color2, color)) |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 2) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_log10(breaks = seq(70, 200, 5)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("PIB en $ (100 = 2008)")

Avec dollars

Code 
NY.GDP.MKTP.CN |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("XC", "US"),
         date >= as.Date("2008-01-01")) |>
  group_by(iso2c) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Iso2c" = "country")) |>
  mutate(color = ifelse(iso2c == "US", color2, color)) |>
  ungroup() |>
  mutate(dollar = value/10^9,
         value = 100*value/value[2]) |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 2) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_log10(breaks = seq(10, 200, 5)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("PIB en $ (100 = Zone Euro, 2008)") + 
  geom_text_repel(data = . %>% filter(year(date) %in% seq(2008, 2022, 2)),
                                      aes(x = date, y = value, label = paste0("$", round(dollar, digits = -2), " Md")))