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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	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	1,248,899	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	1,258,401	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	1,267,178	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	1,275,379	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	1,283,064	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	1,290,620	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	1,298,245	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	1,305,116	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	1,311,877	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	1,318,559	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	1,324,993	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	1,331,357	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	1,339,549	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	1,349,537	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	1,357,520	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	1,366,654	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	1,373,406	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	1,382,401	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	1,390,136	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	1,395,398	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	1,400,035	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	1,402,060	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	1,402,537	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	1,401,693	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

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.

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.

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