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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	Russia	Oman	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	2,348	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	2,403	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	2,457	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	2,510	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	2,562	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	2,613	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	2,663	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	2,713	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	2,764	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	2,816	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	2,871	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	2,928	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	2,986	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	3,047	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	3,110	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	3,174	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	3,240	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	3,307	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	3,375	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	3,444	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	3,512	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	3,582	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	3,651	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	3,696	37,914

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

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.

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