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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 EgyptOmanBosnia & Herzegovina
66,0012,3483,811
67,3772,4033,901
68,7902,4573,919
70,2692,5103,923
71,7852,5623,940
73,2982,6133,975
74,8322,6633,991
76,4322,7133,993
78,1402,7643,990
79,9452,8163,987
81,8402,8713,985
83,8442,9283,983
85,9692,9863,980
88,1983,0473,977
90,5663,1103,973
93,0093,1743,968
95,4323,2403,963
97,8823,3073,957
100,3033,3753,951
102,6173,4443,944
104,8163,5123,937
106,8933,5823,929
108,8713,6513,921
110,5933,6963,876

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

Egypt

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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