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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Portugal	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	10,144	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	10,215	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	10,288	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	10,344	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	10,383	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	10,408	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	10,427	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	10,446	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,467	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,482	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	10,492	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	10,497	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	10,481	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	10,439	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	10,382	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	10,326	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	10,283	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	10,251	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	10,226	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	10,209	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	10,212	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	10,223	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	10,214	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	10,200	146,693

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.