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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	United States	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	279,040	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	282,162	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	284,969	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	287,625	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	290,108	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	292,805	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	295,517	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	298,380	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	301,231	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	304,094	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	306,772	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	309,327	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	311,583	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	313,878	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	316,060	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	318,386	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	320,739	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	323,072	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	325,122	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	326,838	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	328,330	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	331,512	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	332,032	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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.