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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Iceland	Ecuador	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	277	12,268	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	281	12,446	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	285	12,629	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	288	12,827	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	289	13,074	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	293	13,368	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	296	13,661	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	304	13,915	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	311	14,133	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	319	14,352	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	319	14,569	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	318	14,786	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	319	15,002	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	321	15,218	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	324	15,433	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	327	15,647	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	331	15,860	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	335	16,072	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	343	16,282	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	353	16,489	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	361	16,693	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	366	16,894	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	372	17,093	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	380	17,288	19,266

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.

All data sources

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.