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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	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,811	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,901	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,919	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,923	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,940	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,975	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,991	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,993	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,990	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,987	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,985	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,983	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,980	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,977	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,973	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,968	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,963	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,957	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,951	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,944	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,937	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,929	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,921	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,876	32,956

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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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