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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	United States	Oman	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	2,348	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	2,403	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	2,457	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	2,510	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	2,562	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	2,613	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	2,663	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	2,713	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	2,764	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	2,816	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	2,871	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	2,928	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	2,986	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	3,047	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	3,110	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	3,174	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	3,240	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	3,307	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	3,375	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	3,444	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	3,512	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	3,582	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	3,651	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	3,696	68,387

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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