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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	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	2,348	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	2,403	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	2,457	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	2,510	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	2,562	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	2,613	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	2,663	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	2,713	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	2,764	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	2,816	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	2,871	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	2,928	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	2,986	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	3,047	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	3,110	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	3,174	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	3,240	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	3,307	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	3,375	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	3,444	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	3,512	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	3,582	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	3,651	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	3,696	5,216

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,

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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