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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Oman	Poland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,348	38,358	387
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,403	38,344	390
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,457	38,339	393
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,510	38,320	396
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,562	38,283	398
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,613	38,268	401
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,663	38,249	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,713	38,220	405
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,764	38,204	406
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,816	38,204	409
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,871	38,572	412
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,928	38,606	414
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,986	38,615	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,047	38,623	420
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,110	38,591	426
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,174	38,573	435
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,240	38,544	445
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,307	38,516	455
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,375	38,511	468
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,444	38,502	485
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,512	38,475	504
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,582	38,443	516
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,651	38,250	518
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,696	37,914	530

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Oman, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.