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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	Peru	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	20,963	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	21,291	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	21,631	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	21,980	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	22,339	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	22,707	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	23,055	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	23,380	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	23,708	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	23,944	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	24,087	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	24,228	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	24,364	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	24,491	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	24,607	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	24,714	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	24,812	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	24,904	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	24,999	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	25,403	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	25,966	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	26,308	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	26,508	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	26,771	22,239

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.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.