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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Oman	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	2,348	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	2,403	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	2,457	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	2,510	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	2,562	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	2,613	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	2,663	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	2,713	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	2,764	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	2,816	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	2,871	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	2,928	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	2,986	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	3,047	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	3,110	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	3,174	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	3,240	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	3,307	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	3,375	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	3,444	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	3,512	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	3,582	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	3,651	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	3,696	5,556

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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