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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	Dominica	Congo - Kinshasa	Oman	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	70	51,181	2,348	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	71	52,782	2,403	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	71	54,453	2,457	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	72	56,170	2,510	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	72	57,860	2,562	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72	59,599	2,613	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	72	61,474	2,663	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,479	2,713	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	72	65,590	2,764	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	73	67,800	2,816	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	73	70,114	2,871	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73	72,550	2,928	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	73	75,138	2,986	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	73	77,792	3,047	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	73	80,534	3,110	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	73	83,368	3,174	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	74	86,229	3,240	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	74	89,193	3,307	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	74	92,209	3,375	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	74	95,232	3,444	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	75	98,320	3,512	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	75	101,499	3,582	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	76	104,767	3,651	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	76	108,171	3,696	37,914

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