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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	United States	Germany	Bulgaria	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	8,091	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	8,052	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	7,798	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	7,755	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	7,710	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	7,668	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	7,628	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	7,587	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	7,549	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	7,513	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	7,475	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	7,425	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	7,242	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	7,200	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	7,160	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	7,119	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	7,074	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	7,024	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	6,973	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	6,923	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	6,874	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	6,833	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	6,778	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	6,720	10,437

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.

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995