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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 GermanyFranceTrinidad & Tobago
81,43960,3961,301
81,47460,8111,303
81,53461,2551,308
81,59561,7031,314
81,56662,1411,320
81,47362,6001,326
81,35463,0731,332
81,19063,5131,338
81,00963,9061,344
80,78164,2641,352
80,50064,5941,359
80,30164,9131,365
80,29265,2311,372
80,44365,5521,379
80,66365,8911,386
81,00066,2121,392
81,70466,4801,399
82,36666,7301,405
82,67467,0151,411
82,92367,3471,436
83,11067,6601,452
83,17867,9011,448
83,21368,1141,450
83,81168,3871,456

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.

France

  • 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
  • 1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
  • 1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
  • 1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

No separate list is published for Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.