  Data describing historical growth of income per capita [Gross Domestic
Product per capita (GDP/cap)] for the world economic growth and for the growth
in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, former USSR, Africa and Latin America
are analysed. They follow closely the linearly-modulated hyperbolic
distributions represented by the ratios of hyperbolic distributions obtained by
fitting the GDP and population data. Results of this analysis demonstrate that
income per capita was increasing monotonically. There was no stagnation and
there were no transitions from stagnation to growth. The usually postulated
dramatic escapes from the Malthusian trap never happened because there was no
trap. Unified Growth Theory is fundamentally incorrect because its central
postulates are contradicted repeatedly by data, which were used but never
analysed during the formulation of this theory. The large body of
readily-available data opens new avenues for the economic and demographic
research. They show that certain fundamental postulates revolving around the
concept of Malthusian stagnation need to be replaced by the evidence-based
interpretations. Within the range of analysable data, which for the growth of
population extends down to 10,000 BC, growth of human population and economic
growth were hyperbolic. There was no Malthusian stagnation and there were no
transitions to distinctly faster trajectories. Industrial Revolution had no
impact on changing growth trajectories.
