Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

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 BarbadosNigerOmanParaguay
27310,4242,3485,366
27410,7852,4035,473
27511,1702,4575,579
27611,5802,5105,683
27812,0152,5625,786
27912,4722,6135,886
28012,9542,6635,984
28113,4592,7136,080
28213,9862,7646,173
28314,5322,8166,264
28515,0922,8716,352
28615,6692,9286,438
28716,2632,9866,522
28816,9033,0476,605
28917,5693,1106,688
29018,2423,1746,769
29118,9573,2406,850
29119,7083,3076,930
29220,4623,3757,012
29321,2283,4447,095
29422,0233,5127,179
29422,8423,5827,263
29523,6913,6517,348
29524,5873,6967,432

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

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