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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	Poland	Oman	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	2,348	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	2,403	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	2,457	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	2,510	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	2,562	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	2,613	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	2,663	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	2,713	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	2,764	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	2,816	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	2,871	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	2,928	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	2,986	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	3,047	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	3,110	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	3,174	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	3,240	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	3,307	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	3,375	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	3,444	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	3,512	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	3,582	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	3,651	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	3,696	8,834

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,

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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