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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	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	19,266	8,834

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK