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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	Romania	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	22,414	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	22,262	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	22,106	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	21,931	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	21,828	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	21,704	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	21,571	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	21,443	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	21,129	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	20,779	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	20,607	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	20,485	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	20,385	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	20,296	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	20,224	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	20,151	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	20,055	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	19,938	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	19,823	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	19,713	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	19,622	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	19,496	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	19,351	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	19,266	34,081

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.

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.

Saudi Arabia

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