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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	Greece	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	10,618	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	10,662	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	10,718	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	10,757	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	10,783	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	10,809	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	10,841	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	10,874	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	10,901	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	10,930	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	10,959	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	10,973	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	10,957	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	10,898	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	10,819	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	10,747	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	10,677	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	10,633	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	10,612	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	10,590	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	10,579	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	10,556	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	10,499	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	10,437	7,169

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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