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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	Romania	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	81,439	22,414	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	81,474	22,262	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	81,534	22,106	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	81,595	21,931	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	81,566	21,828	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	81,473	21,704	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	81,354	21,571	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	81,190	21,443	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	81,009	21,129	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	80,781	20,779	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	80,500	20,607	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	80,301	20,485	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	80,292	20,385	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	80,443	20,296	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	80,663	20,224	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	81,000	20,151	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	81,704	20,055	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	82,366	19,938	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	82,674	19,823	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	82,923	19,713	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	83,110	19,622	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	83,178	19,496	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	83,213	19,351	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	83,811	19,266	40,364

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Iraq

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 – 1500: 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.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828