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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	Hungary	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	10,244	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	10,218	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	10,194	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	10,165	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	10,136	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	10,114	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	10,094	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	10,078	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	10,062	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	10,045	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	10,029	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	10,007	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	9,978	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	9,927	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	9,900	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	9,873	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	9,850	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	9,821	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	9,794	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	9,782	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	9,778	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	9,757	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	9,716	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	9,690	19,266

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.

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.

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.