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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Germany	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	81,439	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	81,474	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	81,534	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	81,595	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	81,566	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	81,473	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	81,354	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	81,190	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	81,009	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	80,781	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	80,500	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	80,301	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	80,292	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	80,443	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,663	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	81,000	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	81,704	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	82,366	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	82,674	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	82,923	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	83,110	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	83,178	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	83,213	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	83,811	20,985

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.

Syria

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828