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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	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	22,414	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	22,262	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	22,106	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	21,931	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	21,828	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	21,704	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	21,571	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	21,443	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	21,129	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	20,779	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	20,607	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	20,485	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	20,385	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	20,296	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	20,224	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	20,151	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	20,055	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	19,938	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	19,823	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	19,713	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	19,622	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	19,496	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	19,351	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	19,266	87,201

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.