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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date GermanyLithuaniaCuba
81,4393,41911,108
81,4743,39511,147
81,5343,36711,179
81,5953,34011,210
81,5663,31311,241
81,4733,27611,260
81,3543,22311,268
81,1903,17211,266
81,0093,13411,261
80,7813,10211,258
80,5003,06811,260
80,3013,00411,262
80,2922,93711,264
80,4432,89811,262
80,6632,86911,250
81,0002,84411,238
81,7042,81811,214
82,3662,78211,180
82,6742,74411,147
82,9232,71811,116
83,1102,71011,105
83,1782,71111,089
83,2132,72411,046
83,8112,74811,003

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.

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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