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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	Moldova	India
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	81,439	4,244	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	81,474	4,199	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	81,534	4,154	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	81,595	4,108	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	81,566	4,059	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	81,473	4,013	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	81,354	3,966	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	81,190	3,919	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	81,009	3,873	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	80,781	3,829	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	80,500	3,788	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	80,301	3,748	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	80,292	3,709	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	80,443	3,671	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,663	3,633	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	81,000	3,595	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	81,704	3,558	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	82,366	3,522	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	82,674	3,485	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	82,923	3,448	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	83,110	3,412	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,178	3,376	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	83,213	3,339	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	83,811	3,570	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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