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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	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	1,248,899	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	1,258,401	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	1,267,178	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	1,275,379	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	1,283,064	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	1,290,620	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	1,298,245	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	1,305,116	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	1,311,877	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	1,318,559	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	1,324,993	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	1,331,357	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	1,339,549	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	1,349,537	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	1,357,520	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	1,366,654	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	1,373,406	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	1,382,401	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	1,390,136	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	1,395,398	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	1,400,035	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	1,402,060	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	1,402,537	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	1,401,693	31,058

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, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.