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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Croatia	Eswatini
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,377	1,033
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,334	1,032
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,171	1,030
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,176	1,028
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	4,176	1,026
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	4,179	1,025
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	4,182	1,023
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	4,183	1,021
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	4,183	1,019
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	4,181	1,017
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	4,177	1,017
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	4,167	1,019
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	4,154	1,024
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	4,141	1,032
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	4,126	1,041
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	4,109	1,051
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	4,081	1,060
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	4,047	1,069
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	4,006	1,078
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	3,968	1,087
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	3,945	1,096
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	3,925	1,106
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	3,839	1,117
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	3,790	1,126

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.

Croatia

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

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