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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	Greece	France
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,618	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,662	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	10,718	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	10,757	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	10,783	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	10,809	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	10,841	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	10,874	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	10,901	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	10,930	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	10,959	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	10,973	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	10,957	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	10,898	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	10,819	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	10,747	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	10,677	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	10,633	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	10,612	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	10,590	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	10,579	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	10,556	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	10,499	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	10,437	68,387

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.

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

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