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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Oman	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	2,348	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	2,403	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	2,457	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	2,510	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	2,562	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	2,613	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	2,663	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	2,713	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	2,764	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	2,816	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	2,871	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	2,928	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	2,986	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	3,047	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	3,110	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	3,174	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	3,240	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	3,307	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	3,375	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	3,444	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	3,512	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	3,582	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	3,651	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	3,696	9,188

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

Israel

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

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