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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Germany	China
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	81,439	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	81,474	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	81,534	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	81,595	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	81,566	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	81,473	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	81,354	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	81,190	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	81,009	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	80,781	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	80,500	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	80,301	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	80,292	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	80,443	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,663	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	81,000	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	81,704	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	82,366	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	82,674	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	82,923	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	83,110	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	83,178	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	83,213	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	83,811	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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.

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.