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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 BarbadosPhilippinesOmanIndia
27379,3462,3481,000,965
27481,1312,4031,018,667
27583,0232,4571,036,256
27684,8762,5101,053,663
27886,6972,5621,070,882
27988,5682,6131,087,941
28090,4182,6631,104,803
28192,2532,7131,121,354
28294,0982,7641,137,576
28395,9232,8161,153,547
28597,6272,8711,169,239
28699,3172,9281,184,638
287100,9992,9861,199,810
288102,6183,0471,214,839
289104,2993,1101,229,765
290106,0763,1741,244,577
291107,8683,2401,259,236
291109,4933,3071,273,693
292111,0943,3751,287,902
293112,8433,4441,301,821
294114,6363,5121,315,530
294117,0263,5821,329,062
295119,4733,6511,339,912
295121,2343,6961,349,060

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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