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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosAzerbaijanOmanGreece
2738,0562,34810,618
2748,1272,40310,662
2758,1942,45710,718
2768,2572,51010,757
2788,3192,56210,783
2798,3912,61310,809
2808,4752,66310,841
2818,5652,71310,874
2828,6572,76410,901
2838,7502,81610,930
2858,8422,87110,959
2868,9332,92810,973
2879,0252,98610,957
2889,1173,04710,898
2899,2103,11010,819
2909,3023,17410,747
2919,3933,24010,677
2919,4813,30710,633
2929,5673,37510,612
2939,6493,44410,590
2949,7273,51210,579
2949,8023,58210,556
2959,8743,65110,499
2959,9183,69610,437

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

Greece

  • 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
  • 1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
  • 1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
  • 1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Barbados, Azerbaijan, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.