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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	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,811	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,901	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,919	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,923	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,940	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,975	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,991	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,993	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,990	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,987	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,985	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,983	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,980	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,977	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,973	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,968	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,963	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,957	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,951	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,944	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,937	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,929	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,921	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,876	85,108

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Iran

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; the database as a whole is cited above.