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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	Denmark	Egypt	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,322	66,001	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,339	67,377	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,358	68,790	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,377	70,269	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,391	71,785	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,404	73,298	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,420	74,832	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,438	76,432	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	282	5,461	78,140	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,494	79,945	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,524	81,840	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,548	83,844	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,571	85,969	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,592	88,198	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,614	90,566	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,644	93,009	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,683	95,432	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,730	97,882	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,766	100,303	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,795	102,617	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,818	104,816	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,831	106,893	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,855	108,871	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,907	110,593	3,696

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

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