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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	Uzbekistan	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	81,439	24,701	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	81,474	25,042	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	81,534	25,372	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	81,595	25,696	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	81,566	25,992	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	81,473	26,268	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	81,354	26,540	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	81,190	26,812	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	81,009	27,081	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	80,781	27,347	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	80,500	27,609	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	80,301	27,869	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	80,292	28,132	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	80,443	28,398	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,663	28,666	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	81,000	28,934	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	81,704	29,205	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	82,366	29,480	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	82,674	29,756	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	82,923	30,031	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	83,110	30,305	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,178	30,576	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	83,213	30,843	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	83,811	31,337	110,593

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.

Egypt

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 Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.