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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 BarbadosHungaryOmanNorth Macedonia
27310,2442,3482,006
27410,2182,4032,017
27510,1942,4572,026
27610,1652,5102,011
27810,1362,5622,018
27910,1142,6132,024
28010,0942,6632,028
28110,0782,7132,031
28210,0622,7642,035
28310,0452,8162,038
28510,0292,8712,042
28610,0072,9282,046
2879,9782,9862,049
2889,9273,0472,052
2899,9003,1102,055
2909,8733,1742,058
2919,8503,2402,061
2919,8213,3072,063
2929,7943,3752,065
2939,7823,4442,067
2949,7783,5122,068
2949,7573,5822,065
2959,7163,6512,057
2959,6903,6962,048

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.