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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	China	Djibouti
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	1,248,899	646
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	1,258,401	669
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	1,267,178	693
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	1,275,379	716
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	1,283,064	691
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	1,290,620	657
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	1,298,245	666
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	1,305,116	679
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	1,311,877	694
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	1,318,559	709
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	1,324,993	725
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	1,331,357	741
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,339,549	757
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,349,537	774
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,357,520	792
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,366,654	810
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,373,406	828
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,382,401	847
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,390,136	865
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,395,398	884
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,400,035	898
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,402,060	912
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,402,537	924
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,401,693	937

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 Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.