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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	Mauritania	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	2,437	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	2,501	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	2,566	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	2,632	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	2,699	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	2,768	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	2,838	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	2,909	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	2,981	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	3,055	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	3,129	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	3,205	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	3,282	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	3,359	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	3,438	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	3,517	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	3,597	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	3,677	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	3,759	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	3,840	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	3,942	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	4,045	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	4,150	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	4,259	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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