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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Romania	Equatorial Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,414	478
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,262	491
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	22,106	506
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,931	521
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	21,828	536
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	21,704	551
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	21,571	567
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	21,443	583
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	21,129	600
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	20,779	616
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	20,607	633
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	20,485	651
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	20,385	668
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	20,296	686
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	20,224	704
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	20,151	722
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	20,055	741
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	19,938	759
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,823	778
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,713	797
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	19,622	825
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	19,496	847
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	19,351	868
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	19,266	889

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.

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 Equatorial Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.