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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	Germany	Burkina Faso	Moldova	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	11,075	4,244	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	11,405	4,199	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	11,828	4,154	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	12,380	4,108	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	12,829	4,059	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	13,178	4,013	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	13,540	3,966	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	13,917	3,919	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	14,309	3,873	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	14,722	3,829	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	15,152	3,788	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	15,600	3,748	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	16,064	3,709	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	16,563	3,671	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	17,072	3,633	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	17,575	3,595	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	18,094	3,558	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	18,621	3,522	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,157	3,485	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,698	3,448	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	20,242	3,412	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	20,788	3,376	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	21,336	3,339	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	21,889	3,570	110,593

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.

All data sources

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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 Burkina Faso, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.