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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 BarbadosMaliOmanEgypt
27310,5962,34866,001
27410,8332,40367,377
27510,8902,45768,790
27611,0072,51070,269
27811,3072,56271,785
27911,5792,61373,298
28011,8042,66374,832
28112,0432,71376,432
28212,3372,76478,140
28312,6572,81679,945
28512,9862,87181,840
28613,3252,92883,844
28713,6792,98685,969
28814,0403,04788,198
28914,4123,11090,566
29014,8033,17493,009
29115,2103,24095,432
29115,6293,30797,882
29216,0603,375100,303
29316,5073,444102,617
29416,9673,512104,816
29417,4423,582106,893
29517,9303,651108,871
29518,4943,696110,593

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

Egypt

  • 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
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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, Mali, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.