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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 BarbadosEgyptOmanYemen
27366,0012,34816,728
27467,3772,40317,236
27568,7902,45717,762
27670,2692,51018,310
27871,7852,56218,855
27973,2982,61319,410
28074,8322,66320,000
28176,4322,71320,611
28278,1402,76421,236
28379,9452,81621,878
28581,8402,87122,533
28683,8442,92823,195
28785,9692,98623,880
28888,1983,04724,594
28990,5663,11025,311
29093,0093,17426,020
29195,4323,24026,698
29197,8823,30727,347
292100,3033,37527,985
293102,6173,44428,608
294104,8163,51229,216
294106,8933,58229,811
295108,8713,65130,399
295110,5933,69631,058

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