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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 GermanyMongoliaHungary
81,4392,43310,244
81,4742,46110,218
81,5342,48910,194
81,5952,51910,165
81,5662,54710,136
81,4732,57410,114
81,3542,60210,094
81,1902,63310,078
81,0092,66610,062
80,7812,70210,045
80,5002,74110,029
80,3012,78310,007
80,2922,8279,978
80,4432,8709,927
80,6632,9129,900
81,0002,9539,873
81,7042,9939,850
82,3663,0319,821
82,6743,0689,794
82,9233,1039,782
83,1103,1719,778
83,1783,2319,757
83,2133,2849,716
83,8113,3339,690

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.

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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