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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	China	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	1,248,899	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	1,258,401	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	1,267,178	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	1,275,379	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	1,283,064	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	1,290,620	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	1,298,245	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	1,305,116	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	1,311,877	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	1,318,559	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	1,324,993	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	1,331,357	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,339,549	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,349,537	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,357,520	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,366,654	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,373,406	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,382,401	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,390,136	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,395,398	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,400,035	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,402,060	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,402,537	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,401,693	174,217

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995