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Gross Domestic Product

Volume 939: debated on Monday 21 November 1977

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Mr. Knox

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for each year since 1945 both in current market prices and in 1970 prices gross domestic productper capita and gross domestic product per family.

Mr. Denzil Davies

The figures available are given in the following table. Estimates at current prices are not available for 1945 and the earliest year for which constant price figures are available is 1948.

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA
At current market pricesAt 1970 market prices
££
1946………203n.a.
1947………216n.a.
1948………235552
1949………247565
1950………257580
1951………286601
1952………309598
1953………332624
1954………353645
1955………375668
1956………403676
1957………425686
1958………440684
1959461708
1960485735
1961514754
1962………534754
1963………565781
1964………613819
1965………655833
1966………694844
1967………729862
1968………785888
1969………836897
1970………917917
1971………1,023939
1972………1,129960
1973………1,2881,020
1974………1,4651,013
1975………1,845998
1976………2,1821,025

Source:

1955–76 National Income and Expenditure 1966–76.

1946–54 CSO Macro-Economic Databank.

Estimates of gross domestic product per family, or per household, have not been provided as this would require an allocation of gross domestic product between the household and non-household population on some arbitrary basis.