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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	Philippines	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	79,346	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	81,131	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	83,023	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	84,876	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	86,697	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	88,568	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	90,418	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	92,253	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	94,098	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	95,923	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	97,627	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	99,317	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	100,999	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	102,618	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	104,299	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	106,076	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	107,868	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	109,493	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	111,094	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	112,843	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	114,636	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	117,026	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	119,473	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	121,234	4,713

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828