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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	North Korea	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,594	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,785	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	22,977	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	23,165	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	23,330	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	23,477	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	23,621	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	23,764	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	23,908	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	24,051	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	24,191	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	24,326	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	24,457	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	24,589	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	24,720	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	24,852	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	24,983	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	25,115	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	25,248	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	25,381	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	25,497	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	25,608	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	25,711	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	25,808	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.

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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.

North Korea

1911-1940: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.
1990-2011: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer 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.