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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 GermanyCubaMali
81,43911,10810,596
81,47411,14710,833
81,53411,17910,890
81,59511,21011,007
81,56611,24111,307
81,47311,26011,579
81,35411,26811,804
81,19011,26612,043
81,00911,26112,337
80,78111,25812,657
80,50011,26012,986
80,30111,26213,325
80,29211,26413,679
80,44311,26214,040
80,66311,25014,412
81,00011,23814,803
81,70411,21415,210
82,36611,18015,629
82,67411,14716,060
82,92311,11616,507
83,11011,10516,967
83,17811,08917,442
83,21311,04617,930
83,81111,00318,494

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

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