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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Germany	Oman	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	2,348	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	2,403	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	2,457	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	2,510	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	2,562	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	2,613	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	2,663	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	2,713	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	2,764	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	2,816	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	2,871	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	2,928	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	2,986	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	3,047	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	3,110	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	3,174	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	3,240	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	3,307	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	3,375	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	3,444	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	3,512	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	3,582	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	3,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	3,696	10,437

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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