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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	India	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	1,000,965	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	1,018,667	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	1,036,256	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	1,053,663	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	1,070,882	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	1,087,941	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	1,104,803	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	1,121,354	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	1,137,576	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	1,153,547	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	1,169,239	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	1,184,638	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	1,199,810	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	1,214,839	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	1,229,765	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	1,244,577	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	1,259,236	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	1,273,693	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	1,287,902	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	1,301,821	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	1,315,530	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	1,329,062	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	1,339,912	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	1,349,060	68,457

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989