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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date NepalOmanEgypt
23,0872,34866,001
23,4872,40367,377
23,8872,45768,790
24,2732,51070,269
24,6452,56271,785
24,9892,61373,298
25,2552,66374,832
25,4842,71376,432
25,7322,76478,140
25,9982,81679,945
26,2982,87181,840
26,6642,92883,844
27,0812,98685,969
27,5053,04788,198
27,9173,11090,566
28,3113,17493,009
28,6783,24095,432
29,0343,30797,882
29,3843,375100,303
29,7183,444102,617
30,0573,512104,816
30,5953,582106,893
31,3113,651108,871
31,8453,696110,593

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

Egypt

  • 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
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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 Nepal, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.