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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Norway	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,463	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,492	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,515	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,539	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	4,566	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	4,593	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	4,624	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	4,662	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	4,710	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	4,769	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	4,830	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	4,890	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	4,954	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	5,020	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	5,081	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	5,138	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	5,191	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	5,237	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	5,278	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	5,313	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	5,349	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	5,380	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	5,409	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	5,458	31,845

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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