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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 GermanyPanamaCongo - Kinshasa
81,4392,84851,181
81,4742,90052,782
81,5342,95254,453
81,5953,00356,170
81,5663,05457,860
81,4733,10459,599
81,3543,15561,474
81,1903,20663,479
81,0093,25865,590
80,7813,31067,800
80,5003,36070,114
80,3013,41172,550
80,2923,46075,138
80,4433,51077,792
80,6633,55980,534
81,0003,60883,368
81,7043,65786,229
82,3663,70589,193
82,6743,75392,209
82,9233,80195,232
83,1103,86298,320
83,1783,918101,499
83,2133,970104,767
83,8114,023108,171

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.

Panama

  • 1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.