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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Sudan	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	26,168	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	26,771	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	27,387	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	28,017	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	28,662	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	29,321	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	29,996	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	30,686	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	31,393	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	32,137	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	33,078	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	33,891	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	34,568	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	35,293	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	36,093	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	37,058	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	38,165	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	39,294	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	40,512	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	41,764	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	42,952	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	44,121	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	45,290	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	46,498	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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