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Real GDP per capita since 1700 (Bank of England)

Real GDP per person in pounds at 2016 prices from the Bank of England’s millennium dataset, with estimates reaching back to 1700.

29.6K £ (2016 prices)United Kingdom · 2016

Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)Published by source: 2024-09-26
GDP
Saved data version: retrieved 2026-11-05, ID 9f2a027eb961Warehouse version at build: v45
Data coverage
  • United Kingdom: 1700–2016; observations: 317; missing years: 0

Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.

United Kingdom

317 rows for United Kingdom

Time range:
05K10K15K20K25K30K170017501800185019001950200029.6K
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United Kingdom

Period statistics

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United Kingdom

1.6K→29.6K

Total change
+1,704.8 %
Annual growth (CAGR)
+0.9 %
Period
1700–2016

United Kingdom: 1.6K (1700) → 29.6K (2016). Change of +1,704.8 % over 316 years. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of +0.9 % per year.

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Format:
Real GDP per capita since 1700 (Bank of England) — United Kingdom
YearCountryValue
2016United Kingdom29,580 £ (2016 prices)
2015United Kingdom29,262 £ (2016 prices)
2014United Kingdom28,861 £ (2016 prices)
2013United Kingdom28,216 £ (2016 prices)
2012United Kingdom27,861 £ (2016 prices)
2011United Kingdom27,682 £ (2016 prices)
2010United Kingdom27,499 £ (2016 prices)
2009United Kingdom27,198 £ (2016 prices)
2008United Kingdom28,630 £ (2016 prices)
2007United Kingdom29,047 £ (2016 prices)
2006United Kingdom28,553 £ (2016 prices)
2005United Kingdom28,046 £ (2016 prices)
2004United Kingdom27,447 £ (2016 prices)
2003United Kingdom26,911 £ (2016 prices)
2002United Kingdom26,128 £ (2016 prices)
2001United Kingdom25,626 £ (2016 prices)
2000United Kingdom25,042 £ (2016 prices)
1999United Kingdom24,221 £ (2016 prices)
1998United Kingdom23,535 £ (2016 prices)
1997United Kingdom22,870 £ (2016 prices)
Source
Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)
Licence
Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution)
Published by source
2024-09-26
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator code in source
gdp-per-capita
Unit of measure
£ at 2016 prices
Data version
v45

Cite

Longseries, “Real GDP per capita since 1700 (Bank of England)”. Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1) (gdp-per-capita), 1700–2016, United Kingdom. Thomas, Ryland and Nicholas Dimsdale (2017), “A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK”, v3.1, Bank of England. Retrieved 2026-11-05. Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution). Data version v45. Data SHA-256: 9f2a027eb9610adb5ca0ef0ec167ddff1ef3f43f40979f64f2a1297426b3a672. https://longseries.com/en/d/boe-real-gdp-per-capita/

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United Kingdom201629,580 £ (2016 prices)29.6K £ (2016 prices)

About this series

A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK, Bank of England, v3.1 (Thomas and Dimsdale, 2017), sheet A21 (real GDP and population), rebased to pounds at 2016 prices with the GDP deflator. From 1700; England, then Great Britain and the UK. Early years are reconstructions. The file is no longer updated: last published in 2017, data to 2016.

Indicator definition

Real GDP divided by population, so output per person. It measures living standards over time, not the size of the economy. For the population see Population of England and the UK, long run (Bank of England).

How to read the data

Before the 18th century the values rest on thin evidence, so read trends over decades rather than single years. Sharp drops mark wars and financial crises, followed by recoveries.

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