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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Saudi Arabia	Botswana
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	19,964	1,630
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	20,426	1,665
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	20,956	1,698
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,549	1,730
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	22,189	1,761
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	22,850	1,792
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	23,516	1,824
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	24,178	1,857
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	24,841	1,890
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	25,518	1,923
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	26,227	1,956
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	27,068	1,990
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	27,810	2,023
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	28,516	2,057
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	29,220	2,091
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	29,936	2,125
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	30,646	2,159
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	31,360	2,194
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	32,184	2,228
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	32,869	2,262
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	33,661	2,297
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	34,542	2,331
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	33,651	2,365
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	34,081	2,403

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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