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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	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

Bolivia

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

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.