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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandAlbaniaOmanPoland
2773,0852,34838,358
2813,0652,40338,344
2853,0472,45738,339
2883,0382,51038,320
2893,0262,56238,283
2933,0142,61338,268
2962,9982,66338,249
3042,9792,71338,220
3112,9572,76438,204
3192,9342,81638,204
3192,9152,87138,572
3182,9002,92838,606
3192,8922,98638,615
3212,8883,04738,623
3242,8823,11038,591
3272,8763,17438,573
3312,8683,24038,544
3352,8633,30738,516
3432,8613,37538,511
3532,8543,44438,502
3612,8423,51238,475
3662,8253,58238,443
3722,7993,65138,250
3802,7873,69637,914

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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