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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 BarbadosPolandOmanIran
27338,3582,34864,704
27438,3442,40365,411
27538,3392,45766,167
27638,3202,51066,689
27838,2832,56267,807
27938,2682,61368,480
28038,2492,66369,325
28138,2202,71370,158
28238,2042,76471,040
28338,2042,81671,942
28538,5722,87172,888
28638,6062,92873,826
28738,6152,98674,625
28838,6233,04775,446
28938,5913,11076,418
29038,5733,17477,521
29138,5443,24078,652
29138,5163,30779,700
29238,5113,37580,725
29338,5023,44481,721
29438,4753,51282,685
29438,4433,58283,614
29538,2503,65184,505
29537,9143,69685,108

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,

Iran

  • 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; the database as a whole is cited above.