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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	Japan	Hungary	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	126,512	10,244	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	126,755	10,218	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	127,056	10,194	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	127,324	10,165	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	127,558	10,136	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	127,658	10,114	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	127,679	10,094	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	127,762	10,078	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	127,904	10,062	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	127,969	10,045	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	127,958	10,029	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	127,967	10,007	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	127,755	9,978	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	127,476	9,927	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	127,257	9,900	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	127,186	9,873	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	127,034	9,850	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	126,857	9,821	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	126,631	9,794	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	126,368	9,782	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	126,092	9,778	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	125,634	9,757	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	125,427	9,716	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	124,762	9,690	3,696

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).

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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