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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Hungary	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	10,244	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	10,218	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	10,194	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	10,165	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	10,136	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	10,114	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	10,094	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	10,078	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	10,062	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	10,045	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	10,029	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	10,007	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	9,978	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	9,927	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	9,900	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	9,873	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	9,850	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	9,821	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	9,794	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	9,782	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	9,778	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	9,757	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	9,716	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	9,690	46,498

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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