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

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

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,

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.

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