Penn World Table

About PWT

• The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level. (detail)

• Please cite our data as follows:
  
  • PWT 6.3
    Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.3, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania, August 2009.
  
  
  • PWT 6.2
    Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.2, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania, September 2006.
  
  
  • PWT 6.1
    Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania, October 2002.
  
  
  • All Other Data
    Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  
• The material below is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9911377. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Data and Documentation

• PWT 6.3 (189 countries, 1950-2007, 2005 as base year)
  • Data Download (online database which provides html, csv, sas format downloads)
  • Complete Data Download (zipped file, excel spreadsheets)
  • What is New in PWT 6.3?
  • Additional Variable Definitions for PWT 6.3
  
  
• PWT 6.2 (188 countries, 1950-2004, 2000 as base year)
  • Data Download
  • About PWT 6.2
  
  
• PWT 6.1 (168 countries, 1950-2000, 1996 as base year)
• Data Download
• What's new
  Main Differences between PWT6.1 and Previous Versions


• PWT 5.6 (1950-1992, 1985 as base year)
• Data Download (.zip file, need to install)


• Benchmark Downloads (the benchmark data used in the component price level estimates for past PWTs)
• Data and Documentation (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1996)

Through the data link above, you can retrieve the pwt data conveniently. Three output formats are provided: html table, sas data input, comma separated values.
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Old Documentation

• Appendix (.pdf, gives detailed description of each variable in PWT6.1)
• Treatment of China in PWT 6 (.pdf, describes the construction of the national accounts data and price level estimation for the PRC)
• Technical Notes (.pdf, describes the programs and data flow in the construction of PWT6.1)