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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 IcelandPhilippinesOmanJordan
27779,3462,3484,591
28181,1312,4034,700
28583,0232,4574,811
28884,8762,5104,923
28986,6972,5625,037
29388,5682,6135,161
29690,4182,6635,295
30492,2532,7135,765
31194,0982,7646,243
31995,9232,8166,397
31997,6272,8716,538
31899,3172,9286,680
319100,9992,9866,840
321102,6183,0476,952
324104,2993,1107,706
327106,0763,1748,839
331107,8683,2409,506
335109,4933,3079,863
343111,0943,37510,066
353112,8433,44410,273
361114,6363,51210,480
366117,0263,58210,628
372119,4733,65110,716
380121,2343,69610,849

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.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

Jordan

  • 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
  • 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.