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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	Canada	Germany	Hungary	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	10,244	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	10,218	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	10,194	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	10,165	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	10,136	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	10,114	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	10,094	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	10,078	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	10,062	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	10,045	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	10,029	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	10,007	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	9,978	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	9,927	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	9,900	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	9,873	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	9,850	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	9,821	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	9,794	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	9,782	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	9,778	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	9,757	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	9,716	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	9,690	121,234

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.