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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	Oman	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	70	2,348	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	71	2,403	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	71	2,457	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	72	2,510	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	72	2,562	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	72	2,613	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	72	2,663	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	72	2,713	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	72	2,764	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	73	2,816	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	73	2,871	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	73	2,928	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	73	2,986	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	73	3,047	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	73	3,110	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	73	3,174	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	74	3,240	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	74	3,307	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	74	3,375	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	74	3,444	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	75	3,512	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	75	3,582	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	76	3,651	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	76	3,696	37,914	295

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