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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	Tunisia	United States	Germany	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	279,040	81,439	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	282,162	81,474	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	284,969	81,534	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	287,625	81,595	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	290,108	81,566	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	292,805	81,473	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	295,517	81,354	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	298,380	81,190	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	301,231	81,009	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	304,094	80,781	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	306,772	80,500	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	309,327	80,301	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	311,583	80,292	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	313,878	80,443	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	316,060	80,663	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	318,386	81,000	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	320,739	81,704	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	323,072	82,366	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	325,122	82,674	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	326,838	82,923	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	328,330	83,110	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	331,512	83,178	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	332,032	83,213	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	333,288	83,811	10,200

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

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).

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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