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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Oman	China
Dec 31, 1999	433	2,348	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	438	2,403	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	443	2,457	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	448	2,510	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	454	2,562	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	460	2,613	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	467	2,663	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	474	2,713	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	482	2,764	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	491	2,816	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	500	2,871	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	509	2,928	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	521	2,986	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	533	3,047	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	547	3,110	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	560	3,174	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	571	3,240	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	586	3,307	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	599	3,375	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	610	3,444	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	623	3,512	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	633	3,582	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	643	3,651	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	651	3,696	1,401,693

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.

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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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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