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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosGermanyOmanHungary
27381,4392,34810,244
27481,4742,40310,218
27581,5342,45710,194
27681,5952,51010,165
27881,5662,56210,136
27981,4732,61310,114
28081,3542,66310,094
28181,1902,71310,078
28281,0092,76410,062
28380,7812,81610,045
28580,5002,87110,029
28680,3012,92810,007
28780,2922,9869,978
28880,4433,0479,927
28980,6633,1109,900
29081,0003,1749,873
29181,7043,2409,850
29182,3663,3079,821
29282,6743,3759,794
29382,9233,4449,782
29483,1103,5129,778
29483,1783,5829,757
29583,2133,6519,716
29583,8113,6969,690

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

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.

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.