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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	Denmark	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,322	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,339	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,358	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,377	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,391	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,404	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,420	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,438	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	5,461	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,494	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,524	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,548	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,571	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,592	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,614	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,644	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,683	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,730	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,766	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,795	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,818	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,831	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,855	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,907	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.

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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

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