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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 BarbadosOmanJordanSeychelles
2732,3484,59178
2742,4034,70079
2752,4574,81180
2762,5104,92381
2782,5625,03782
2792,6135,16183
2802,6635,29584
2812,7135,76585
2822,7646,24386
2832,8166,39787
2852,8716,53887
2862,9286,68088
2872,9866,84089
2883,0476,95290
2893,1107,70691
2903,1748,83992
2913,2409,50692
2913,3079,86393
2923,37510,06694
2933,44410,27395
2943,51210,48096
2943,58210,62897
2953,65110,71698
2953,69610,84998

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.