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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Hungary	United States	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	10,244	279,040	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	10,218	282,162	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	10,194	284,969	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	10,165	287,625	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	10,136	290,108	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	10,114	292,805	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	10,094	295,517	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	10,078	298,380	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	10,062	301,231	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	10,045	304,094	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	10,029	306,772	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	10,007	309,327	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	9,978	311,583	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	9,927	313,878	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	9,900	316,060	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	9,873	318,386	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	9,850	320,739	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	9,821	323,072	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	9,794	325,122	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	9,782	326,838	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	9,778	328,330	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	9,757	331,512	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	9,716	332,032	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	9,690	333,288	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

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.