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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	Brazil	Germany	Poland	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	81,439	38,358	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	81,474	38,344	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	81,534	38,339	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	81,595	38,320	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	81,566	38,283	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	81,473	38,268	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	81,354	38,249	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	81,190	38,220	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	81,009	38,204	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	80,781	38,204	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	80,500	38,572	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	80,301	38,606	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	80,292	38,615	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	80,443	38,623	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,663	38,591	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	81,000	38,573	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	81,704	38,544	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	82,366	38,516	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	82,674	38,511	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	82,923	38,502	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	83,110	38,475	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	83,178	38,443	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	83,213	38,250	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	83,811	37,914	10,437

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

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995