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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	Italy	United States	Moldova	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	279,040	4,244	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	282,162	4,199	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	284,969	4,154	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	287,625	4,108	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	290,108	4,059	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	292,805	4,013	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	295,517	3,966	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	298,380	3,919	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	301,231	3,873	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	304,094	3,829	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	306,772	3,788	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	309,327	3,748	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	311,583	3,709	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	313,878	3,671	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	316,060	3,633	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	318,386	3,595	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	320,739	3,558	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	323,072	3,522	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	325,122	3,485	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	326,838	3,448	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	328,330	3,412	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	331,512	3,376	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	332,032	3,339	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	333,288	3,570	9,690

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

No separate list is published for Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.