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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Germany	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	81,439	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	81,474	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	81,534	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	81,595	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	81,566	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	81,473	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	81,354	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	81,190	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	81,009	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	80,781	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	80,500	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	80,301	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	80,292	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	80,443	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	80,663	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	81,000	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	81,704	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	82,366	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	82,674	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	82,923	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	83,110	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	83,178	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	83,213	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	83,811	5,750

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

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).