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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 BarbadosJordanOmanSeychelles
2734,5912,34878
2744,7002,40379
2754,8112,45780
2764,9232,51081
2785,0372,56282
2795,1612,61383
2805,2952,66384
2815,7652,71385
2826,2432,76486
2836,3972,81687
2856,5382,87187
2866,6802,92888
2876,8402,98689
2886,9523,04790
2897,7063,11091
2908,8393,17492
2919,5063,24092
2919,8633,30793
29210,0663,37594
29310,2733,44495
29410,4803,51296
29410,6283,58297
29510,7163,65198
29510,8493,69698

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.

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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

Jordan

  • 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
  • 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

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