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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	Barbados	Luxembourg	Ecuador	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	433	12,268	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	438	12,446	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	443	12,629	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	448	12,827	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	454	13,074	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	460	13,368	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	467	13,661	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	474	13,915	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	482	14,133	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	491	14,352	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	500	14,569	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	509	14,786	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	521	15,002	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	533	15,218	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	547	15,433	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	560	15,647	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	571	15,860	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	586	16,072	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	599	16,282	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	610	16,489	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	623	16,693	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	633	16,894	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	643	17,093	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	651	17,288	83,811

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

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.

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.

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