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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Oman	China
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	2,348	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	2,403	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	2,457	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	2,510	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	2,562	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	2,613	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	2,663	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	2,713	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	2,764	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	2,816	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	2,871	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	2,928	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	2,986	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	3,047	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	3,110	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	3,174	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	3,240	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	3,307	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	3,375	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	3,444	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	3,512	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	3,582	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	3,651	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	3,696	1,401,693

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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