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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 ChileOmanNorway
15,1402,3484,463
15,3402,4034,492
15,5132,4574,515
15,6862,5104,539
15,8592,5624,566
16,0292,6134,593
16,2222,6634,624
16,3642,7134,662
16,5362,7644,710
16,7002,8164,769
16,8642,8714,830
16,9992,9284,890
17,1892,9864,954
17,3783,0475,020
17,5453,1105,081
17,7203,1745,138
17,9043,2405,191
18,0993,3075,237
18,3503,3755,278
18,6813,4445,313
19,0353,5125,349
19,3853,5825,380
19,6043,6515,409
19,7153,6965,458

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

Norway

  • 1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
  • 1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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