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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBrazilAzerbaijan
273174,3208,056
274176,9028,127
275179,3898,194
276181,7218,257
278183,9708,319
279186,1658,391
280188,3308,475
281190,4388,565
282192,4508,657
283194,4588,750
285196,4648,842
286198,4088,933
287200,1529,025
288201,8949,117
289203,6149,210
290205,3589,302
291207,1489,393
291208,8599,481
292210,5379,567
293212,2589,649
294213,9409,727
294215,5779,802
295216,7209,874
295217,7189,918

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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