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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Barbados	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	273	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	274	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	275	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	276	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	278	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	279	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	280	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	281	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	282	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	283	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	285	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	286	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	287	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	288	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	289	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	290	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	291	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	291	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	292	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	293	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	294	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	294	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	295	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	295	3,696

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

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 Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.