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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date AustraliaGermanyUnited Arab EmiratesDjibouti
18,69281,4393,101646
18,90781,4743,284669
19,15181,5343,458693
19,37181,5953,613716
19,59581,5663,754691
19,80581,4733,882657
20,04881,3544,000666
20,32081,1904,532679
20,69481,0095,623694
21,11380,7817,277709
21,55380,5008,164725
21,89180,3018,152741
22,19780,2928,438757
22,58880,4438,747774
22,98080,6639,077792
23,32681,0009,321810
23,66481,7049,461828
24,03682,3669,587847
24,44582,6749,699865
24,82382,9239,796884
25,20483,1109,879898
25,52983,1789,953912
25,57483,21310,018924
25,82683,81110,099937

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Australia

  • 1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
  • 1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
  • 1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
  • 1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for United Arab Emirates, Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.