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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	United Kingdom	Germany	Honduras	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	81,439	6,198	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	81,474	6,367	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	81,534	6,535	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	81,595	6,698	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	81,566	6,863	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	81,473	7,028	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	81,354	7,194	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	81,190	7,359	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	81,009	7,522	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	80,781	7,682	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	80,500	7,839	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	80,301	7,991	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	80,292	8,141	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	80,443	8,288	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	80,663	8,429	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	81,000	8,546	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	81,704	8,661	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	82,366	8,770	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	82,674	8,878	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	82,923	9,002	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	83,110	9,154	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	83,178	9,304	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	83,213	9,448	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	83,811	9,590	87,201

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

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

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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