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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 BarbadosGreeceOmanHaiti
27310,6182,3488,121
27410,6622,4038,279
27510,7182,4578,430
27610,7572,5108,580
27810,7832,5628,739
27910,8092,6138,900
28010,8412,6639,061
28110,8742,7139,216
28210,9012,7649,364
28310,9302,8169,508
28510,9592,8719,652
28610,9732,9289,553
28710,9572,9869,670
28810,8983,0479,793
28910,8193,1109,922
29010,7473,17410,047
29110,6773,24010,254
29110,6333,30710,486
29210,6123,37510,647
29310,5903,44410,788
29410,5793,51210,933
29410,5563,58211,077
29510,4993,65111,215
29510,4373,69611,349

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, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.