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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	Burkina Faso	Egypt	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,075	66,001	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,405	67,377	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,828	68,790	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,380	70,269	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	278	12,829	71,785	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,178	73,298	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,540	74,832	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,917	76,432	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,309	78,140	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,722	79,945	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	285	15,152	81,840	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	286	15,600	83,844	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,064	85,969	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,563	88,198	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,072	90,566	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,575	93,009	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,094	95,432	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,621	97,882	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,157	100,303	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,698	102,617	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	294	20,242	104,816	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	294	20,788	106,893	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	295	21,336	108,871	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	295	21,889	110,593	10,099

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, Burkina Faso, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.