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

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.

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.