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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	Greece	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	10,618	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	10,662	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	10,718	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	10,757	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	10,783	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	10,809	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	10,841	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	10,874	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	10,901	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	10,930	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	10,959	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	10,973	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	10,957	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	10,898	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	10,819	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	10,747	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	10,677	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	10,633	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	10,612	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	10,590	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	10,579	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	10,556	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	10,499	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	10,437	6,291

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.

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.