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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Greece	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	10,618	433
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	10,662	438
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	10,718	443
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	10,757	448
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	10,783	454
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	10,809	460
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	10,841	467
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	10,874	474
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,901	482
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,930	491
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	10,959	500
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	10,973	509
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	10,957	521
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	10,898	533
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	10,819	547
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	10,747	560
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	10,677	571
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	10,633	586
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	10,612	599
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	10,590	610
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	10,579	623
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	10,556	633
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	10,499	643
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	10,437	651

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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