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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Poland	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	38,358	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	38,344	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	38,339	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	38,320	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	38,283	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	38,268	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	38,249	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	38,220	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	38,204	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	38,204	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	38,572	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	38,606	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	38,615	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	38,623	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	38,591	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	38,573	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	38,544	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	38,516	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	38,511	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	38,502	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	38,475	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	38,443	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	38,250	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	37,914	117,924

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.

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,

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