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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Oman	Iceland	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,348	277	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,403	281	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,457	285	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,510	288	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,562	289	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,613	293	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,663	296	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,713	304	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,764	311	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,816	319	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,871	319	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,928	318	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,986	319	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,047	321	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,110	324	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,174	327	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,240	331	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,307	335	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,375	343	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,444	353	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,512	361	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,582	366	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,651	372	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,696	380	37,914

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.