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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Oman	China
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	2,348	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	2,403	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	2,457	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	2,510	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	2,562	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	2,613	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	2,663	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	2,713	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	2,764	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	2,816	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	2,871	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	2,928	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	2,986	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,047	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,110	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,174	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,240	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,307	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,375	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,444	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,512	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,582	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,651	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,696	1,401,693

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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