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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	Belgium	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,227	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,252	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	10,288	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	10,334	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	10,377	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	10,422	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	10,480	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	10,549	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	10,627	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	10,711	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	10,797	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	10,897	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	11,039	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	11,108	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	11,160	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	11,210	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	11,275	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	11,332	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	11,376	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	11,429	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	11,491	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	11,546	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	11,594	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	11,695	26,771

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.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.