About the Book
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001, and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains STATlinks, a service providing access to the underlying data online in Excel format. This monumental reference work offers a comprehensive view of the long term changes in world income and population, with estimates of world GDP for the past 2000 years.