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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Cyprus	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	818	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	826	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	835	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	845	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	855	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	867	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	879	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	894	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	913	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	937	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	962	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	988	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	1,013	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	1,029	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	1,026	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	1,015	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	1,009	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	1,014	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	1,023	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	1,036	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	1,050	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	1,062	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	1,072	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	1,087	9,188

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.

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

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