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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Oman	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	2,348	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	2,403	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	2,457	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	2,510	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	2,562	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	2,613	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	2,663	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	2,713	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	2,764	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	2,816	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	2,871	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	2,928	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	2,986	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	3,047	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	3,110	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	3,174	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	3,240	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	3,307	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	3,375	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	3,444	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	3,512	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	3,582	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	3,651	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	3,696	10,200

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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