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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	Switzerland	Burkina Faso	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	11,075	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	11,405	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	11,828	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	12,380	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	12,829	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	13,178	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	13,540	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	13,917	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	14,309	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	14,722	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	15,152	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	15,600	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	16,064	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	16,563	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	17,072	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	17,575	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	18,094	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	18,621	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	19,157	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	19,698	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	20,242	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	20,788	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	21,336	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	21,889	110,593

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.