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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	Portugal	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	81,439	10,144	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	81,474	10,215	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	81,534	10,288	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	81,595	10,344	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	81,566	10,383	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	81,473	10,408	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	81,354	10,427	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	81,190	10,446	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	81,009	10,467	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	80,781	10,482	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	80,500	10,492	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	80,301	10,497	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	80,292	10,481	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	80,443	10,439	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,663	10,382	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	81,000	10,326	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	81,704	10,283	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	82,366	10,251	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	82,674	10,226	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	82,923	10,209	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	83,110	10,212	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	83,178	10,223	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	83,213	10,214	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	83,811	10,200	17,288

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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.