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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Albania	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	3,085	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	3,065	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	3,047	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	3,038	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	3,026	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	3,014	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	2,998	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	2,979	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	2,957	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	2,934	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	2,915	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	2,900	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	2,892	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	2,888	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	2,882	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	2,876	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	2,868	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	2,863	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	2,861	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	2,854	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	2,842	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	2,825	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	2,799	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	2,787	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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