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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	United States	Germany	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	279,040	81,439	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	282,162	81,474	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	284,969	81,534	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	287,625	81,595	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	290,108	81,566	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	292,805	81,473	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	295,517	81,354	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	298,380	81,190	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	301,231	81,009	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	304,094	80,781	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	306,772	80,500	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	309,327	80,301	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	311,583	80,292	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	313,878	80,443	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	316,060	80,663	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	318,386	81,000	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	320,739	81,704	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	323,072	82,366	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	325,122	82,674	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	326,838	82,923	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	328,330	83,110	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	331,512	83,178	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	332,032	83,213	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	333,288	83,811	32,956

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press