Early income distributions

• Global prices and incomes database
  • Main database
  • Converting to metric
  • Consumer bundles
  • Early income distributions
  • Other data
• American incomes ca.1650-1870
• Nominal GDP historical series
• Gov't budget historical series
• Publications & working papers
  • Publications
  • Working papers
• 
  About us
  • Contact us
  • Related sites

Some files are in PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Reader, click here.

• Britain's income distributions 1290-1994

  • England and Wales 1290 (Campbell)
  • England and Wales 1688 (King, revised)
  • England and Wales 1759 (Massie, revised)
  • England and Wales 1801-03 (Colquhoun, revised)
  • Baxter EW & UK 1867
  • Bowley-Stamp-Routh 1911
  • UK Y-Distrib. 1938-94

• Russia's income distributions

  • Russia's classes 1678-1913
  • Income distributions in European Russia c1904

• Some of the early income distributions from Milanovic, Lindert, and Williamson (GPIH WP No. 8, updated by NBER Working Paper 13550, revised):

• Bihar (India) 1807
• Brazil 1872
• Byzantium 1000
• Chile 1861
• China 1880
• France 1788
• India 1750
• Java 1880 (Van Zanden)
• Java 1880, xls (Van Zanden)
• Java 1924
• Java 1924 without foreigners (Booth)
• Java 1924 with foreigners (Booth)
• Kenya 1914, 1927 (Bigston)
• Levant (Damascus) 1596
• Naples 1811
• Netherlands 1808 and Holland 1732
• Nueva España 1790
• Old Castile 1752
• Peru 1876
• Peru 1876-1877 (Berry and Milanovic)
• Poland 1929
• Roman Empire 14 CE
• Siam 1929-1930
• South Serbia 1455
• Tuscany 1427
• Vietnam 1921-1936 (Merette)