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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 BarbadosIranOmanPoland
27364,7042,34838,358
27465,4112,40338,344
27566,1672,45738,339
27666,6892,51038,320
27867,8072,56238,283
27968,4802,61338,268
28069,3252,66338,249
28170,1582,71338,220
28271,0402,76438,204
28371,9422,81638,204
28572,8882,87138,572
28673,8262,92838,606
28774,6252,98638,615
28875,4463,04738,623
28976,4183,11038,591
29077,5213,17438,573
29178,6523,24038,544
29179,7003,30738,516
29280,7253,37538,511
29381,7213,44438,502
29482,6853,51238,475
29483,6143,58238,443
29584,5053,65138,250
29585,1083,69637,914

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

Iran

  • 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

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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