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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 BarbadosIsraelOmanRussia
2735,9272,348147,218
2746,0882,403146,600
2756,2362,457145,980
2766,3662,510145,310
2786,4842,562144,652
2796,6032,613144,071
2806,7232,663143,522
2816,8462,713143,053
2826,9722,764142,809
2837,1002,816142,746
2857,2262,871142,789
2867,3602,928142,853
2877,4982,986142,964
2887,6373,047143,205
2897,7813,110143,510
2907,9313,174146,094
2918,0913,240146,410
2918,2513,307146,678
2928,4123,375146,846
2938,5763,444146,834
2948,7423,512146,768
2948,8993,582146,463
2959,0473,651145,849
2959,1883,696146,693

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

Israel

  • 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

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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