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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	China	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	1,248,899	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	1,258,401	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	1,267,178	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	1,275,379	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	1,283,064	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	1,290,620	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	1,298,245	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	1,305,116	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	1,311,877	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	1,318,559	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	1,324,993	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	1,331,357	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,339,549	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,349,537	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,357,520	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,366,654	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,373,406	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,382,401	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,390,136	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,395,398	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,400,035	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,402,060	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,402,537	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,401,693	19,266

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.