Version 9.1 of the Penn World Table has now been released! Go directly to the data via ggdc.net/pwt or see our release note here: rug.nl/ggdc/blog/pwt-…. Data until 2017 and new capital concepts are ready for you. Enjoy!

@NeumarkDN Ioana Marinescu In fact, this is true around the world as well. Big kudos to Robert Inklaar and Co for compiling amazing data on capital prices around the world in the Penn World Table (pic below is again from Fig. 7 in the paper)

Judy Stephenson Economic History Society LSE Department of Economic History European Historical Economics Society Ben Schneider Oxford Economic & Social History Kathryn E. Gary Pseudoerasmus Vincent Geloso D'Maris Coffman Guido Alfani My favourite baseline dataset is the new Penn tables Penn World Table - it is not economic history technically, but there is a lot of details about recent history and the economic development story.

Thanks to careful users, we found an error in the current value of GDP for our alternative time series of China. Correcting this affects variables such as CGDPo. Please download the corrected version at rug.nl/ggdc/productiv…

A recent post argues that the Maddison data on income levels in Haiti and Dominican Republic are wrong. That claim does not hold up well, see rug.nl/ggdc/blog/madd…

Our colleagues at the University of Queensland have released a new version of their database on comparative income levels: uqicd.economics.uq.edu.au. Compared to PWT, this database has much information on within-country inequality and uses another approach to income comparisons.

From the GGDC, new Productivity Level Database with data for 84 countries, 12 sectors and 3 years (2005, 2011 and 2017). Plus new findings, see 👇

Thanks for the shoutout Alex Tabarrok, couldn't agree more! mercatus.org/marginal-revol….

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Alan Heston, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the original architects of the Penn World Table. We honour his memory here: rug.nl/ggdc/blog/alan…