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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,811	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,901	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,919	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,923	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,940	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,975	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,991	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,993	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,990	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,987	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,985	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,983	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,980	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,977	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,973	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,968	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,963	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,957	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,951	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,944	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,937	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,929	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,921	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,876	4,713

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

Lebanon

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.