France, 1788 - GPIH



France, 1788

|Social group |Number of people |Percentage of population|Per capita income |Income in terms of per |

| |(in 000) | |( livres / annum) |capita mean |

|Agricultural day laborers and servants |10150 |36.29 |39.4 |0.27 |

|Small scale farmers |5250 |18.77 |64.6 |0.45 |

|Workers (non agricultural) |1500 |5.36 |66.7 |0.47 |

|Mixed workers |1800 |6.44 |75.0 |0.52 |

|Servants (non agricultural) |1080 |3.86 |92.6 |0.65 |

|Shopkeepers and artisans |3240 |11.58 |150.0 |1.05 |

|Large scale farmers |2250 |8.04 |219.6 |1.53 |

|Bourgeoisie |2160 |7.72 |724.1 |5.05 |

|Nobles and clergy |540 |1.93 |724.1 |5.05 |

|Total |27970 |100 |143.3 |1 |

Income distribution data: From Christian Morrisson and Wayne Snyder (2000). The “high income” variant for income of nobles and clergy and bourgeoisie assumed.

Population and area: Population (27.97 million) obtained directly from Morrisson and Snyder data. The current area of France assumed.

Urbanization rate: From Bairoch (1985, p. 279). The average of the estimated 11-13 percent, for the year 1800, and based on cities with more than 5,000 inhabitants.

Mean income in PPP: GDP from Maddison (2007), for year 1820 (the first year for which the data for France are available) is $1134.

REFERENCES

Bairoch, Paul (1985), De Jėricho à Mexico: villes et economies dans l’histoire, Paris: Arcades, Gallimard.

Maddison, Angus (2001), The World Economy: A Millennial Perspectives, Paris: OECD Development Centre.

Morrisson, Christian and Wayne Snyder (2000), “The income inequality of France in historical perspective”, European Review of Economic History, 4: 59-83.

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