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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	Albania	Egypt	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,085	66,001	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,065	67,377	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,047	68,790	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,038	70,269	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,026	71,785	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,014	73,298	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,998	74,832	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,979	76,432	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,957	78,140	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,934	79,945	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,915	81,840	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,900	83,844	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,892	85,969	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,888	88,198	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,882	90,566	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,876	93,009	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,868	95,432	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,863	97,882	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,861	100,303	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,854	102,617	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,842	104,816	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,825	106,893	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,799	108,871	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,787	110,593	46,498

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

Egypt

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, Albania, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.