TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jones, Charles I
TI  - The Facts of Economic Growth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 21142
PY  - 2015
Y2  - May 2015
DO  - 10.3386/w21142
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21142
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21142.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Charles I. Jones
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-4800
Tel: 650/725-9265
Fax: 650/725-0468
E-Mail: chad.jones@stanford.edu
AB  - Why are people in the richest countries of the world so much richer today than 100 years ago? And why are some countries so much richer than others? Questions such as these define the field of economic growth. This paper documents the facts that underlie these questions. How much richer are we today than 100 years ago, and how large are the income gaps between countries? The purpose of the paper is to provide an encyclopedia of the fundamental facts of economic growth upon which our theories are built, gathering them together in one place and updating the facts with the latest available data.
ER  -