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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 BarbadosGreeceOmanAzerbaijan
27310,6182,3488,056
27410,6622,4038,127
27510,7182,4578,194
27610,7572,5108,257
27810,7832,5628,319
27910,8092,6138,391
28010,8412,6638,475
28110,8742,7138,565
28210,9012,7648,657
28310,9302,8168,750
28510,9592,8718,842
28610,9732,9288,933
28710,9572,9869,025
28810,8983,0479,117
28910,8193,1109,210
29010,7473,1749,302
29110,6773,2409,393
29110,6333,3079,481
29210,6123,3759,567
29310,5903,4449,649
29410,5793,5129,727
29410,5563,5829,802
29510,4993,6519,874
29510,4373,6969,918

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