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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBrazilUkraine
273174,32049,491
274176,90249,014
275179,38948,520
276181,72148,074
278183,97047,692
279186,16547,342
280188,33047,003
281190,43846,685
282192,45046,407
283194,45846,156
285196,46445,951
286198,40845,768
287200,15245,604
288201,89445,492
289203,61445,389
290205,35844,944
291207,14844,429
291208,85944,208
292210,53744,029
293212,25843,944
294213,94043,951
294215,57743,904
295216,72043,746
295217,71839,897

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, Ukraine; the database as a whole is cited above.