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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	Egypt	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	51,181	66,001	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	52,782	67,377	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	54,453	68,790	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	56,170	70,269	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,860	71,785	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	59,599	73,298	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	61,474	74,832	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,479	76,432	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	65,590	78,140	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	67,800	79,945	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	70,114	81,840	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	72,550	83,844	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	75,138	85,969	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,792	88,198	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,534	90,566	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	83,368	93,009	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	86,229	95,432	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	89,193	97,882	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	92,209	100,303	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	95,232	102,617	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	98,320	104,816	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	101,499	106,893	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	104,767	108,871	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	108,171	110,593	530

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

Egypt

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