Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Germany	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	146,693

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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