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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 BarbadosLuxembourgOmanIndia
2734332,3481,000,965
2744382,4031,018,667
2754432,4571,036,256
2764482,5101,053,663
2784542,5621,070,882
2794602,6131,087,941
2804672,6631,104,803
2814742,7131,121,354
2824822,7641,137,576
2834912,8161,153,547
2855002,8711,169,239
2865092,9281,184,638
2875212,9861,199,810
2885333,0471,214,839
2895473,1101,229,765
2905603,1741,244,577
2915713,2401,259,236
2915863,3071,273,693
2925993,3751,287,902
2936103,4441,301,821
2946233,5121,315,530
2946333,5821,329,062
2956433,6511,339,912
2956513,6961,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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