Historical Population, GDP and GDP per capita

http://www.trentu.ca/economics/362/MaddisonData.xls

I post this only to help the people who wants to make some accurates scenario with the true GDP of countries.
Population data are available too so if one day we will have the ability to change population in scenario this could be useful.

It's from year 1 to 2003, data from 2003 to today is easy to find everywhere on the web.
Of course this is not "perfect" and every specialist don't agree on the accuracy of this data but it's always good to have a base to establish a scenario.

An exemple of innacuracy can be found by exemple in future population (The autor of this data is not a specialist of the future). In the column of 2030 population we can see that Uk population should be bigger than France population in 2030. And a lots of specialists think that France population will be higher than Uk population in 2030. By exemple this article : http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2009/10/23/ssr10-europe-black-continent/ (You can read it if you have time it's really interesting).

An other major issue is that for a lot of specialist it's impossible to evaluate the GDP before the year 1500.

I hope that this will help you in your scenarios.

This is nice

+1

Thomas confirmed for best poster on the forum.