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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 BarbadosQatarOmanPoland
2736272,34838,358
2746592,40338,344
2756912,45738,339
2767242,51038,320
2787572,56238,283
2798502,61338,268
2801,0012,66338,249
2811,1532,71338,220
2821,3062,76438,204
2831,4602,81638,204
2851,6152,87138,572
2861,7702,92838,606
2871,9042,98638,615
2882,0103,04738,623
2892,1033,11038,591
2902,1873,17438,573
2912,2613,24038,544
2912,3263,30738,516
2922,3843,37538,511
2932,4353,44438,502
2942,4803,51238,475
2942,5193,58238,443
2952,5533,65138,250
2952,5593,69637,914

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, Qatar, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.