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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Germany	Albania	New Zealand
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	81,439	3,085	3,890
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	81,474	3,065	3,912
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	81,534	3,047	3,947
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	81,595	3,038	4,018
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	81,566	3,026	4,094
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	81,473	3,014	4,151
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	81,354	2,998	4,198
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	81,190	2,979	4,248
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	81,009	2,957	4,287
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	80,781	2,934	4,323
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	80,500	2,915	4,370
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	80,301	2,900	4,416
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	80,292	2,892	4,446
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	80,443	2,888	4,471
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	80,663	2,882	4,516
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	81,000	2,876	4,597
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	81,704	2,868	4,695
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	82,366	2,863	4,800
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	82,674	2,861	4,897
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	82,923	2,854	4,982
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	83,110	2,842	5,074
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	83,178	2,825	5,159
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	83,213	2,799	5,188
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	83,811	2,787	5,245

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.

All data sources

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.

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.

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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