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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 BarbadosRussiaOmanJordan
273147,2182,3484,591
274146,6002,4034,700
275145,9802,4574,811
276145,3102,5104,923
278144,6522,5625,037
279144,0712,6135,161
280143,5222,6635,295
281143,0532,7135,765
282142,8092,7646,243
283142,7462,8166,397
285142,7892,8716,538
286142,8532,9286,680
287142,9642,9866,840
288143,2053,0476,952
289143,5103,1107,706
290146,0943,1748,839
291146,4103,2409,506
291146,6783,3079,863
292146,8463,37510,066
293146,8343,44410,273
294146,7683,51210,480
294146,4633,58210,628
295145,8493,65110,716
295146,6933,69610,849

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

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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.