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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	France	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	60,396	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	60,811	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	61,255	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	61,703	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	62,141	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	62,600	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	63,073	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	63,513	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	63,906	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	64,264	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	64,594	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	64,913	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	65,231	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	65,552	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	65,891	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	66,212	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	66,480	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	66,730	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	67,015	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	67,347	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	67,660	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	67,901	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	68,114	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	68,387	46,736

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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.