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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Germany	Belgium	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	81,439	10,227	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	81,474	10,252	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	81,534	10,288	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	81,595	10,334	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	81,566	10,377	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	81,473	10,422	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	81,354	10,480	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	81,190	10,549	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	81,009	10,627	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	80,781	10,711	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	80,500	10,797	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	80,301	10,897	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	80,292	11,039	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	80,443	11,108	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,663	11,160	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	81,000	11,210	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	81,704	11,275	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	82,366	11,332	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	82,674	11,376	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	82,923	11,429	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	83,110	11,491	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,178	11,546	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	83,213	11,594	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	83,811	11,695	26,771

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.

All data sources

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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