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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	North Macedonia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	2,006	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	2,017	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	2,026	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	2,011	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	2,018	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	2,024	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	2,028	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	2,031	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	2,035	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	2,038	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	2,042	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	2,046	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	2,049	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	2,052	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	2,055	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	2,058	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	2,061	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	2,063	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	2,065	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	2,067	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	2,068	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	2,065	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	2,057	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	2,048	17,288

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.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.