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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandIndiaOman
2771,000,9652,348
2811,018,6672,403
2851,036,2562,457
2881,053,6632,510
2891,070,8822,562
2931,087,9412,613
2961,104,8032,663
3041,121,3542,713
3111,137,5762,764
3191,153,5472,816
3191,169,2392,871
3181,184,6382,928
3191,199,8102,986
3211,214,8393,047
3241,229,7653,110
3271,244,5773,174
3311,259,2363,240
3351,273,6933,307
3431,287,9023,375
3531,301,8213,444
3611,315,5303,512
3661,329,0623,582
3721,339,9123,651
3801,349,0603,696

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.

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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.

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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