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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	India	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	1,000,965	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	1,018,667	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	1,036,256	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	1,053,663	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	1,070,882	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	1,087,941	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	1,104,803	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	1,121,354	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	1,137,576	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	1,153,547	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	1,169,239	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	1,184,638	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	1,199,810	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	1,214,839	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	1,229,765	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	1,244,577	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	1,259,236	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	1,273,693	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	1,287,902	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	1,301,821	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	1,315,530	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	1,329,062	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	1,339,912	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	1,349,060	10,849

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828