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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	Niger	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,424	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,785	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	11,170	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	11,580	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	12,015	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	12,472	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	12,954	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	13,459	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	13,986	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	14,532	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	15,092	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	15,669	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	16,263	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	16,903	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	17,569	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	18,242	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	18,957	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	19,708	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	20,462	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	21,228	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	22,023	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	22,842	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	23,691	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	24,587	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.

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.

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