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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	Estonia	Oman	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,378	2,348	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,400	2,403	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,391	2,457	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,382	2,510	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,374	2,562	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,365	2,613	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,357	2,663	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,349	2,713	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,341	2,764	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,337	2,816	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,334	2,871	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,332	2,928	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,328	2,986	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,324	3,047	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,319	3,110	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,314	3,174	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,312	3,240	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,314	3,307	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,314	3,375	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,318	3,444	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,323	3,512	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,327	3,582	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,329	3,651	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,330	3,696	40,364

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

Iraq

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