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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	Bolivia	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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.