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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Hungary	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	10,244	78
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	10,218	79
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	10,194	80
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	10,165	81
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	10,136	82
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	10,114	83
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	10,094	84
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	10,078	85
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,062	86
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,045	87
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	10,029	87
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	10,007	88
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	9,978	89
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	9,927	90
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	9,900	91
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	9,873	92
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	9,850	92
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	9,821	93
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	9,794	94
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	9,782	95
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	9,778	96
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	9,757	97
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	9,716	98
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	9,690	98

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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