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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	3,811	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	3,901	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	3,919	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	3,923	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	3,940	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	3,975	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	3,991	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	3,993	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	3,990	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	3,987	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	3,985	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	3,983	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	3,980	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	3,977	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	3,973	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	3,968	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	3,963	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	3,957	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	3,951	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	3,944	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	3,937	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	3,929	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	3,921	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	3,876	17,288

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.