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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Afghanistan	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,206	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,461	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	22,507	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	23,600	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	25,005	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	25,698	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	26,335	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	27,154	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	27,387	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	27,706	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	28,484	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	29,121	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	29,758	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	30,420	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	31,108	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	31,823	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	32,564	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	33,332	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	34,125	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	34,941	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	35,972	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	37,034	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	38,127	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	39,252	34,081

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

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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