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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Croatia	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	4,377	51,181	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	4,334	52,782	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	4,171	54,453	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	4,176	56,170	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	4,176	57,860	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	4,179	59,599	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	4,182	61,474	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	4,183	63,479	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	4,183	65,590	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	4,181	67,800	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	4,177	70,114	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	4,167	72,550	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	4,154	75,138	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	4,126	80,534	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	4,109	83,368	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	4,081	86,229	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	4,047	89,193	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	4,006	92,209	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,968	95,232	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,945	98,320	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,925	101,499	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,839	104,767	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,790	108,171	83,811

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

Croatia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.