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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCyprusSingapore
2738183,959
2748264,028
2758354,138
2768454,176
2788554,115
2798674,167
2808794,266
2818944,401
2829134,589
2839374,839
2859624,988
2869885,077
2871,0135,184
2881,0295,312
2891,0265,399
2901,0155,470
2911,0095,535
2911,0145,607
2921,0235,612
2931,0365,639
2941,0505,704
2941,0625,686
2951,0725,716
2951,0875,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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