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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	Iceland	Belgium	Romania	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	22,414	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	22,262	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	22,106	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	21,931	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	21,828	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	21,704	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	21,571	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	21,443	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	21,129	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	20,779	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	20,607	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	20,485	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	20,385	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	20,296	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	20,224	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	20,151	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	20,055	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	19,938	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	19,823	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	19,713	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	19,622	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	19,496	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	19,351	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	19,266	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.