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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	China	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	1,248,899	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	1,258,401	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	1,267,178	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	1,275,379	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	1,283,064	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	1,290,620	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	1,298,245	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	1,305,116	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	1,311,877	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	1,318,559	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	1,324,993	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	1,331,357	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,339,549	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,349,537	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,357,520	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,366,654	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,373,406	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,382,401	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,390,136	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,395,398	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,400,035	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,402,060	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,402,537	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,401,693	29,417

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.

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