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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date GermanyCubaBolivia
81,43911,1088,007
81,47411,1478,177
81,53411,1798,351
81,59511,2108,529
81,56611,2418,711
81,47311,2608,895
81,35411,2689,081
81,19011,2669,268
81,00911,2619,457
80,78111,2589,647
80,50011,2609,836
80,30111,26210,024
80,29211,26410,211
80,44311,26210,397
80,66311,25010,581
81,00011,23810,763
81,70411,21410,942
82,36611,18011,118
82,67411,14711,289
82,92311,11611,456
83,11011,10511,621
83,17811,08911,775
83,21311,04611,917
83,81111,00312,060

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.

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

Bolivia

  • 1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128