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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	Barbados	Afghanistan	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,206	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,461	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,507	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,600	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	25,005	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,698	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,335	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	27,154	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	27,387	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,706	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,484	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	29,121	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,758	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	30,420	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	31,108	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	31,823	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	32,564	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	33,332	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	34,125	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	34,941	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	35,972	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	37,034	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,127	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	39,252	40,364

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

Iraq

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Barbados, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.