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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	Laos	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	5,286	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	5,397	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	5,499	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	5,578	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	5,654	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	5,746	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	5,836	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	5,931	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	6,035	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	6,145	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	6,257	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	6,368	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	6,477	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	6,586	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	6,695	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	6,804	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	6,912	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	7,019	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	7,127	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	7,234	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	7,343	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	7,452	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	7,560	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	7,666	87,201

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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