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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	China	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	1,248,899	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	1,258,401	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	1,267,178	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	1,275,379	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	1,283,064	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	1,290,620	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	1,298,245	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	1,305,116	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	1,311,877	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	1,318,559	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	1,324,993	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	1,331,357	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	1,339,549	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	1,349,537	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	1,357,520	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	1,366,654	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	1,373,406	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	1,382,401	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	1,390,136	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	1,395,398	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	1,400,035	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	1,402,060	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	1,402,537	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	1,401,693	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

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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.