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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	Barbados	Germany	Oman	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	2,348	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	2,403	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	2,457	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	2,510	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	2,562	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	2,613	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	2,663	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	2,713	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	2,764	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	2,816	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	2,871	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	2,928	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	2,986	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	3,047	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	3,110	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	3,174	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	3,240	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	3,307	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	3,375	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	3,444	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	3,512	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	3,582	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	3,651	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	3,696	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

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 Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.