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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	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	2,348	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	2,403	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	2,457	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	2,510	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	2,562	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	2,613	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	2,663	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	2,713	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	2,764	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	2,816	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	2,871	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	2,928	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	2,986	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	3,047	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	3,110	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	3,174	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	3,240	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	3,307	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	3,375	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	3,444	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	3,512	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	3,582	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	3,651	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	3,696	5,907

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, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.