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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Poland	Central African Republic	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	38,358	3,889	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	38,344	3,980	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	38,339	4,054	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	38,320	4,128	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	38,283	4,215	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	38,268	4,289	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	38,249	4,363	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	38,220	4,449	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	38,204	4,544	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	38,204	4,641	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	38,572	4,742	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	38,606	4,845	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	38,615	4,950	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	38,623	5,057	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	38,591	5,167	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	38,573	5,278	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	38,544	5,392	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	38,516	5,507	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	38,511	5,625	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	38,502	5,745	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	38,475	5,874	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	38,443	6,025	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	38,250	6,154	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	37,914	6,291	19,266

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.

All data sources

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.