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East Germany: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1980–1990 · 11 observations · rGDP

1990
285 billionlocal currency
Change on 1989
−19.2%year on year
Average growth, 1980–1990
+1.2%a year

Real GDP

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
1990285,497
1989353,338
1988345,230
1987334,875
1986324,108
1985311,842
1984296,941
1983283,103
1982270,733
1981263,245

Sources

  • COMECON1980–1990

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East Germany documentation (PDF)

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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 →

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