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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Switzerland	Ukraine
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	7,258	49,491
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	7,296	49,014
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	7,332	48,520
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	7,384	48,074
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	7,438	47,692
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	7,488	47,342
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	7,532	47,003
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	7,579	46,685
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	7,647	46,407
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	7,738	46,156
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	7,825	45,951
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	7,884	45,768
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	7,959	45,604
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	8,044	45,492
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	8,137	45,389
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	8,237	44,944
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	8,332	44,429
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	8,423	44,208
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	8,502	44,029
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	8,565	43,944
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	8,626	43,951
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	8,689	43,904
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	8,756	43,746
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	8,834	39,897

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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