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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	Yemen	Oman	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	16,728	2,348	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	17,236	2,403	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	17,762	2,457	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	18,310	2,510	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	18,855	2,562	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	19,410	2,613	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	20,000	2,663	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	20,611	2,713	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	21,236	2,764	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	21,878	2,816	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	22,533	2,871	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	23,195	2,928	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	23,880	2,986	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	24,594	3,047	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	25,311	3,110	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	26,020	3,174	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	26,698	3,240	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	27,347	3,307	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	27,985	3,375	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	28,608	3,444	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	29,216	3,512	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	29,811	3,582	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	30,399	3,651	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	31,058	3,696	1,883

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

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