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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 IrelandOmanCongo - Kinshasa
3,7572,34851,181
3,8072,40352,782
3,8662,45754,453
3,9342,51056,170
4,0002,56257,860
4,0702,61359,599
4,1632,66361,474
4,2732,71363,479
4,4032,76465,590
4,4992,81667,800
4,5422,87170,114
4,5632,92872,550
4,5812,98675,138
4,6003,04777,792
4,6233,11080,534
4,6553,17483,368
4,6993,24086,229
4,7523,30789,193
4,8053,37592,209
4,8643,44495,232
4,9303,51298,320
4,9833,582101,499
5,0223,651104,767
5,1183,696108,171

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

Ireland

  • 1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
  • 1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
  • 1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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