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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	United States	Hungary	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	279,040	10,244	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	282,162	10,218	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	284,969	10,194	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	287,625	10,165	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	290,108	10,136	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	292,805	10,114	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	295,517	10,094	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	298,380	10,078	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	301,231	10,062	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	304,094	10,045	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	306,772	10,029	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	309,327	10,007	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	311,583	9,978	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	313,878	9,927	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	316,060	9,900	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	318,386	9,873	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	320,739	9,850	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	323,072	9,821	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	325,122	9,794	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	326,838	9,782	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	328,330	9,778	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	331,512	9,757	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	332,032	9,716	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	333,288	9,690	3,228

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.

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).

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.

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