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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 GermanyEcuadorBosnia & Herzegovina
81,43912,2683,811
81,47412,4463,901
81,53412,6293,919
81,59512,8273,923
81,56613,0743,940
81,47313,3683,975
81,35413,6613,991
81,19013,9153,993
81,00914,1333,990
80,78114,3523,987
80,50014,5693,985
80,30114,7863,983
80,29215,0023,980
80,44315,2183,977
80,66315,4333,973
81,00015,6473,968
81,70415,8603,963
82,36616,0723,957
82,67416,2823,951
82,92316,4893,944
83,11016,6933,937
83,17816,8943,929
83,21317,0933,921
83,81117,2883,876

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.

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project