Population, long-run history: compare countries

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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	China	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	46,498

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.

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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

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.