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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	Ecuador	Oman	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	2,348	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	2,403	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	2,457	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	2,510	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	2,562	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	2,613	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	2,663	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	2,713	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	2,764	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	2,816	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	2,871	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	2,928	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	2,986	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	3,047	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	3,110	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	3,174	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	3,240	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	3,307	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	3,375	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	3,444	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	3,512	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	3,582	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	3,651	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	3,696	4,713

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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