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East Germany

20 series · 1949–1990 · Europe & Central Asia

National accounts

VariableCodeCoverageLatest
Nominal GDPMillions of local currencynGDP1980–1989353,338 (1989)
Nominal GDP (USD)Millions of US dollarsnGDP_USD1980–1989187,706 (1989)
Real GDPMillions of local currencyrGDP1980–1990285,497 (1990)
Real GDP per capitaConstant local currency per personrGDP_pc1980–198921,501 (1989)
DeflatorIndex, 2015 = 100deflator1980–1989100.0 (1989)

Consumption and investment

VariableCodeCoverageLatest
Gross capital formationMillions of local currencyinv1949–198977,074 (1989)
Gross capital formation (% of GDP)Percent of GDPinv_GDP1980–198921.8 (1989)
Gross capital formation (USD)Millions of US dollarsinv_USD1959–198940,945 (1989)

External sector

VariableCodeCoverageLatest
ExportsMillions of local currencyexports1949–1989141,096 (1989)
Exports (% of GDP)Percent of GDPexports_GDP1980–198939.9 (1989)
Exports (USD)Millions of US dollarsexports_USD1959–198974,955 (1989)
ImportsMillions of local currencyimports1949–1989144,710 (1989)
Imports (% of GDP)Percent of GDPimports_GDP1980–198941.0 (1989)
Imports (USD)Millions of US dollarsimports_USD1959–198976,875 (1989)
USD exchange rateLocal currency per US dollarUSDfx1959–19901.63 (1990)
Real effective exchange rateIndex, 2015 = 100REER1953–1988100.0 (1988)

Money and interest rates

VariableCodeCoverageLatest
M0 (monetary base)Millions of local currencyM01949–198917,022 (1989)

Prices and labor markets

VariableCodeCoverageLatest
Consumer price indexIndex, 2015 = 100CPI1950–1989100.0 (1989)
InflationPercentinfl1956–19891.01 (1989)
PopulationMillions of peoplepop1950–198916.4 (1989)

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →