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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Poland	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	38,358	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	38,344	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	38,339	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	38,320	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	38,283	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	38,268	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	38,249	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	38,220	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	38,204	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	38,204	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	38,572	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	38,606	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	38,615	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	38,623	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	38,591	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	38,573	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	38,544	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	38,516	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	38,511	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	38,502	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	38,475	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	38,443	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	38,250	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	37,914	7,387

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 Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.