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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	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.

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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

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.