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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Germany	Brazil
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	81,439	174,320
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	81,474	176,902
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	81,534	179,389
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	81,595	181,721
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	81,566	183,970
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	81,473	186,165
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	81,354	188,330
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	81,190	190,438
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	81,009	192,450
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	80,781	194,458
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	80,500	196,464
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	80,301	198,408
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	80,292	200,152
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	80,443	201,894
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	80,663	203,614
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	81,000	205,358
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	81,704	207,148
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	82,366	208,859
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	82,674	210,537
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	82,923	212,258
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	83,110	213,940
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	83,178	215,577
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	83,213	216,720
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	83,811	217,718

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.

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.

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;