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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	Poland	Oman	Azerbaijan
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	2,348	8,056
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	2,403	8,127
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	2,457	8,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	2,510	8,257
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	2,562	8,319
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	2,613	8,391
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	2,663	8,475
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	2,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	2,764	8,657
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	2,816	8,750
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	2,871	8,842
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	2,928	8,933
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	2,986	9,025
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	3,047	9,117
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	3,110	9,210
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	3,174	9,302
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	3,240	9,393
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	3,307	9,481
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	3,375	9,567
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	3,444	9,649
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	3,512	9,727
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	3,582	9,802
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	3,651	9,874
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	3,696	9,918

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,

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