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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	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	10,424	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	10,785	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	11,170	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	11,580	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	12,015	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	12,472	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	12,954	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	13,459	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	13,986	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	14,532	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	15,092	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	15,669	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	16,263	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	16,903	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	17,569	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	18,242	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	18,957	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	19,708	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	20,462	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	21,228	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	22,023	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	22,842	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	23,691	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	24,587	87,201

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.

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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