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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	Brazil	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	9,690

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;

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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