Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Barbados	Oman	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	2,348	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	2,403	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	2,457	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	2,510	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	2,562	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	2,613	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	2,663	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	2,713	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	2,764	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	2,816	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	2,871	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	2,928	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	2,986	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	3,047	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	3,110	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	3,174	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	3,240	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	3,307	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	3,375	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	3,444	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	3,512	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	3,582	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	3,651	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	3,696	26,771

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.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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