Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

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	Belgium	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,227	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,252	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	10,288	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	10,334	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	10,377	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	10,422	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	10,480	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	10,549	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	10,627	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	10,711	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	10,797	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	10,897	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	11,039	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	11,108	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	11,160	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	11,210	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	11,275	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	11,332	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	11,376	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	11,429	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	11,491	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	11,546	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	11,594	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	11,695	7,169

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.