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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	China	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	1,248,899	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	1,258,401	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	1,267,178	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	1,275,379	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	1,283,064	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	1,290,620	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	1,298,245	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	1,305,116	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	1,311,877	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	1,318,559	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	1,324,993	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	1,331,357	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,339,549	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,349,537	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,357,520	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,366,654	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,373,406	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,382,401	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,390,136	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,395,398	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,400,035	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,402,060	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,402,537	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,401,693	2,739

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 Namibia; the database as a whole is cited above.