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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	China	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	1,248,899	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	1,258,401	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	1,267,178	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	1,275,379	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	1,283,064	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	1,290,620	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	1,298,245	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	1,305,116	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	1,311,877	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	1,318,559	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	1,324,993	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	1,331,357	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	1,339,549	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	1,349,537	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	1,357,520	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	1,366,654	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	1,373,406	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	1,382,401	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	1,390,136	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	1,395,398	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	1,400,035	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	1,402,060	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	1,402,537	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	1,401,693	39,252

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

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.