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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	Chad	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	7,559	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	7,821	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	8,092	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	8,395	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	8,763	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	9,191	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	9,594	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	9,967	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	10,338	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	10,728	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	11,139	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	11,550	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	11,983	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	12,427	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	12,895	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	13,379	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	13,823	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	14,277	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	14,765	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	15,252	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	15,750	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	16,257	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	16,776	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	17,307	40,364

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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

No separate list is published for Chad; the database as a whole is cited above.