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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	United States	Iceland	Oman	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	277	2,348	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	281	2,403	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	285	2,457	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	288	2,510	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	289	2,562	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	293	2,613	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	296	2,663	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	304	2,713	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	311	2,764	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	319	2,816	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	319	2,871	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	318	2,928	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	319	2,986	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	321	3,047	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	324	3,110	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	327	3,174	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	331	3,240	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	335	3,307	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	343	3,375	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	353	3,444	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	361	3,512	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	366	3,582	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	372	3,651	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	380	3,696	37,914

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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; the database as a whole is cited above.