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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Oman	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	2,348	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	2,403	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	2,457	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	2,510	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	2,562	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	2,613	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	2,663	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	2,713	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	2,764	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	2,816	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	2,871	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	2,928	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	2,986	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	3,047	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	3,110	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	3,174	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	3,240	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	3,307	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	3,375	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	3,444	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	3,512	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	3,582	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	3,651	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	3,696	5,750

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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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