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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	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,618	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,662	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	10,718	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	10,757	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	10,783	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	10,809	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	10,841	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	10,874	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	10,901	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	10,930	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	10,959	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	10,973	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	10,957	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	10,898	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	10,819	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	10,747	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	10,677	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	10,633	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	10,612	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	10,590	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	10,579	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	10,556	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	10,499	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	10,437	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.