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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BangladeshOmanIndia
132,9072,3481,000,965
135,2072,4031,018,667
137,4202,4571,036,256
139,5732,5101,053,663
141,6502,5621,070,882
143,6442,6131,087,941
145,5462,6631,104,803
147,3762,7131,121,354
149,0472,7641,137,576
150,5622,8161,153,547
152,1892,8711,169,239
153,9272,9281,184,638
155,6342,9861,199,810
157,3263,0471,214,839
158,9993,1101,229,765
160,6503,1741,244,577
162,2733,2401,259,236
163,9383,3071,273,693
165,6553,3751,287,902
167,3583,4441,301,821
169,0453,5121,315,530
170,7093,5821,329,062
172,3543,6511,339,912
174,2173,6961,349,060

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.

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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

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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