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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	Germany	Romania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	22,414	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	22,262	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	22,106	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	21,931	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	21,828	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	21,704	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	21,571	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	21,443	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	21,129	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	20,779	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	20,607	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	20,485	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	20,385	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	20,296	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	20,224	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	20,151	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	20,055	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	19,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	19,823	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	19,713	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	19,622	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	19,496	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	19,351	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	19,266	17,288

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.

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.

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.