Talk:Penn World Tables (PWT)
Penn World Table Documentation
Availability
The data is currently available for the years 1950 through 2014 for 182 different countries. Varying series are not reported for all 182 countries. In the Series Available section reported series will be assumed to be reported for all 182 countries unless otherwise indicated. Varying series are also not reported for the full time range of 1950 through 2014. There is no set interval which dictates when the next release of the Penn World Table data will be.
Data Source
The data and metadata is available here: http://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/
- Certain series in the data are reported in chained PPPs, these PPPs are in millions of 2011 US Dollars.
- Certain series in the data are reported in current PPPs, these PPPs are in millions of 2011 US Dollars.
- Certain series in the data are reported in constant 2011 national prices, these prices are in millions of 2011 US Dollars.
Series Available
Reported Series
Identifier Variables
- Country Code
- Using 3-letter ISO country codes
Real GDP, employment and population levels
- Expenditure-side real GDP
- At chained PPPs
- At chained PPPs
- 178 countries reporting
- 70 countries reporting
- Based on years of schooling and returns to education
- 145 countries reporting
Current price GDP, capital and TFP
- Real consumption of households and government
- At current PPPs
- Sum of real consumption and investment, at current PPPs
- Expenditure-side real GDP
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- 180 countries reporting
- At current PPPs
- 113 countries reporting
- At current PPPs
- 113 countries reporting
National accounts-based variables
- Real GDP
- At constant 2011 national prices
- At constant 2011 national prices
- At constant 2011 national prices
- At constant 2011 national prices
- 180 countries reporting
- At constant 2011 national prices
- 116 countries reporting
- At constant 2011 national prices
- 116 countries reporting
- At current national prices
- 133 countries reporting
- 180 countries reporting
Exchange rates and GDP price levels
- Exchange rate
- Quotient of national currency divided by the US dollar (market+estimated)
- Quotient of PPP divided by exchange rate, price level of USA in 2011 =1
- Quotient of PPP divided by exchange rate, price level of USA in 2011=1
- Quotient of PPP divided by exchange rate, price level of USA in 2011=1
Data information variables
- Relative price data for consumption, investment and government
- Extrapolated=0, Benchmark=1, Interpolated=2
- Extrapolated=0, Benchmark=1, Interpolated=2
- Market-based=0, Estimated=1
- Observation of price level of expenditure-side or output-side GDP
- Not an outlier=0, Outlier=1
- Correlation between expenditure shares of the country and the US
- Benchmark observations only
- Sourced from the World Bank, only for developing countries
- 131 countries reporting
Shares in output-side real GDP at current PPPs
- Share of household consumption
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
- At current PPPs
Price levels, expenditures categories and capital
- Price level of household consumption
- Price level of US in 2011=1
- Price level of US in 2011=1
- Price level of US in 2011=1
- Price level of US in 2011=1
- Price level of US in 2011=1
- Price level of US in 2011=1