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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Slovakia
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	5,360
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	5,365
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	5,344
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	5,343
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	5,343
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	5,346
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	5,351
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	5,355
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	5,361
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	5,370
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	5,382
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	5,394
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	5,362
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	5,370
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	5,377
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	5,382
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	5,386
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	5,395
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	5,402
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	5,410
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	5,417
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	5,424
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	5,404
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	5,464

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.

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