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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	51,181	3,085	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	52,782	3,065	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	54,453	3,047	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	56,170	3,038	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,860	3,026	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	59,599	3,014	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	61,474	2,998	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,479	2,979	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	65,590	2,957	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	67,800	2,934	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	70,114	2,915	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	72,550	2,900	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	75,138	2,892	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,792	2,888	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,534	2,882	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	83,368	2,876	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	86,229	2,868	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	89,193	2,863	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	92,209	2,861	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	95,232	2,854	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	98,320	2,842	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	101,499	2,825	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	104,767	2,799	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	108,171	2,787	40,364

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.

All data sources

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

Iraq

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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, Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.