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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	Japan	Albania	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	3,085	531
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	3,065	545
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	3,047	559
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	3,038	574
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	3,026	590
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	3,014	606
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	2,998	623
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	2,979	640
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	2,957	657
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	2,934	674
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	2,915	690
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	2,900	706
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	2,892	722
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	2,888	737
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	2,882	752
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	2,876	767
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	2,868	781
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	2,863	795
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	2,861	808
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	2,854	821
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	2,842	837
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	2,825	853
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	2,799	869
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	2,787	885

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Albania, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.