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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandOmanPolandParaguay
2772,34838,3585,366
2812,40338,3445,473
2852,45738,3395,579
2882,51038,3205,683
2892,56238,2835,786
2932,61338,2685,886
2962,66338,2495,984
3042,71338,2206,080
3112,76438,2046,173
3192,81638,2046,264
3192,87138,5726,352
3182,92838,6066,438
3192,98638,6156,522
3213,04738,6236,605
3243,11038,5916,688
3273,17438,5736,769
3313,24038,5446,850
3353,30738,5166,930
3433,37538,5117,012
3533,44438,5027,095
3613,51238,4757,179
3663,58238,4437,263
3723,65138,2507,348
3803,69637,9147,432

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.

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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