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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Austria	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	8,039	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	8,059	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	8,090	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	8,130	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	8,166	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	8,217	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	8,274	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	8,317	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	8,344	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	8,370	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	8,390	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	8,410	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	8,438	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	8,476	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	8,527	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	8,594	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	8,680	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	8,791	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	8,847	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	8,890	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	8,930	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	8,969	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	9,004	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	9,107	68,457

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.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989