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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	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	2,348	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	2,403	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	2,457	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	2,510	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	2,562	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	2,613	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	2,663	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	2,713	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	2,764	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	2,816	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	2,871	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	2,928	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	2,986	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	3,047	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	3,110	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	3,174	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	3,240	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	3,307	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	3,375	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	3,444	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	3,512	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	3,582	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	3,651	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	3,696	83,811

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,

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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