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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	China
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	1,401,693

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.

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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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.