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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosAzerbaijanFrance
2738,05660,396
2748,12760,811
2758,19461,255
2768,25761,703
2788,31962,141
2798,39162,600
2808,47563,073
2818,56563,513
2828,65763,906
2838,75064,264
2858,84264,594
2868,93364,913
2879,02565,231
2889,11765,552
2899,21065,891
2909,30266,212
2919,39366,480
2919,48166,730
2929,56767,015
2939,64967,347
2949,72767,660
2949,80267,901
2959,87468,114
2959,91868,387

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

France

  • 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
  • 1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
  • 1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
  • 1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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