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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Germany	Argentina	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	36,924	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	37,336	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	37,714	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	38,079	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	38,438	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	38,800	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	39,171	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	39,556	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	39,947	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	40,343	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	40,736	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	41,401	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	41,881	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	42,360	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	42,836	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	43,310	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	43,779	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	44,245	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	44,706	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	45,162	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	45,613	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	46,058	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	46,496	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	46,736	10,437

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.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995