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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	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	1,000,965	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	1,018,667	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	1,036,256	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	1,053,663	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	1,070,882	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	1,087,941	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	1,104,803	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	1,121,354	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	1,137,576	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	1,153,547	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	1,169,239	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	1,184,638	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	1,199,810	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	1,214,839	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	1,229,765	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	1,244,577	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	1,259,236	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	1,273,693	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	1,287,902	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	1,301,821	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	1,315,530	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	1,329,062	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	1,339,912	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	1,349,060	5,458

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995