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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 BarbadosPolandOmanJordan
27338,3582,3484,591
27438,3442,4034,700
27538,3392,4574,811
27638,3202,5104,923
27838,2832,5625,037
27938,2682,6135,161
28038,2492,6635,295
28138,2202,7135,765
28238,2042,7646,243
28338,2042,8166,397
28538,5722,8716,538
28638,6062,9286,680
28738,6152,9866,840
28838,6233,0476,952
28938,5913,1107,706
29038,5733,1748,839
29138,5443,2409,506
29138,5163,3079,863
29238,5113,37510,066
29338,5023,44410,273
29438,4753,51210,480
29438,4433,58210,628
29538,2503,65110,716
29537,9143,69610,849

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,

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; the database as a whole is cited above.