Population, long-run history: compare countries

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

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Benin	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,461	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,677	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,902	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,130	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,360	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,589	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,838	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,089	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,335	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,603	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,884	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,179	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,486	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,805	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,135	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,480	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,842	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,220	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,613	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	12,018	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	361	12,370	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	366	12,725	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	372	13,081	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	380	13,439	9,188

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.

Israel

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

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