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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	Hungary	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,244	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,218	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	10,194	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	10,165	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	10,136	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	10,114	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	10,094	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	10,078	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	10,062	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	10,045	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	10,029	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	10,007	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	9,978	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	9,927	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	9,900	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	9,873	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	9,850	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	9,821	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	9,794	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	9,782	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	9,778	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	9,757	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	9,716	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	9,690	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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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