PWT 9.0
PWT version 9.0 is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014. Access to the data is provided below:
User information
(DOI: 10.15141/S5J01T)
If you are new to PWT, please consult the User Guide to PWT 9 for further information and a guide to the available documentation. This Vox column is a good starting point as well. If you are an experienced PWT user, please consult What is new in PWT 9.0.
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Attribution requirement - When using these data (for whatever purpose), please make the following reference:
- Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), "The Next Generation of the Penn World Table" American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at www.ggdc.net/pwt
For questions not covered in the documentation, please contact pwt@rug.nl.

License and funding
Penn World Table 9.0 by Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
. This research received support through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.
Documentation
Document | Content |
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The Next Generation of the Penn World Table |
Paper introducing new concepts and new results of PWT, starting with version 8.
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Human capital in PWT 9.0 | Compares sources of educational attainment data across countries and motivates an alternative selection of data for PWT 9.0. |
Additional data and programs
File | Content |
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NA data (Stata, Excel) | The National Accounts data in current and constant national prices and exchange rate and population data |
Trade detail | Exports and imports by Broad Economic Category, including shares in CGDPo and price levels |
Labor detail | Details on the sources and methods for compiling employment, educational attainment and labor share data |
Capital detail
Updated October 10 2017 with corrected machinery and other assets deflators |
Investment, capital stock and capital consumption data by assets. |
Program package | The Stata data files and do-files necessary to replicate and customize PWT |
Expenditure share correlations | Bilateral correlations between expenditure (budget) shares in the different global benchmark years |
NA vintages (2009, 2010, 2011) | Older vintages of NA data with data up to the indicated year |
ICP benchmark data (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1996) | PPPs and expenditure at the most detailed level for publicly available benchmark years |
Last modified: | 11 January 2021 09.31 a.m. |