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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	Palestinian Territories	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	126,512	2,996	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	126,755	3,075	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	127,056	3,155	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	127,324	3,235	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	127,558	3,315	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	127,658	3,396	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	127,679	3,478	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	127,762	3,559	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	127,904	3,642	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	127,969	3,727	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	127,958	3,817	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	127,967	3,907	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	127,755	3,997	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	127,476	4,088	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	127,257	4,178	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	127,186	4,269	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	127,034	4,359	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	126,857	4,451	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	126,631	4,533	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	126,368	4,615	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	126,092	4,715	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	125,634	4,820	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	125,427	4,930	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	124,762	5,042	17,288

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.

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.

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