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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	Thailand	Romania	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	22,414	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	22,262	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	22,106	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	21,931	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	21,828	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	21,704	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	21,571	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	21,443	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	21,129	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	20,779	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	20,607	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	20,485	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	20,385	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	20,296	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	20,224	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	20,151	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	20,055	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	19,938	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	19,823	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	19,713	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	19,622	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	19,496	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	19,351	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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.