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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Chad	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	7,559	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	7,821	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	8,092	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	8,395	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	8,763	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	9,191	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	9,594	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	9,967	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,338	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,728	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	11,139	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	11,550	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	11,983	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	12,427	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	12,895	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	13,379	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	13,823	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	14,277	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	14,765	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	15,252	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	15,750	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	16,257	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	16,776	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	17,307	31,845

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 Chad, Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.