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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	Dominica	Burkina Faso	Croatia
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	11,075	4,377
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	11,405	4,334
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	11,828	4,171
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	12,380	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	12,829	4,176
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	13,178	4,179
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	13,540	4,182
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	13,917	4,183
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	14,309	4,183
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	14,722	4,181
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	15,152	4,177
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	15,600	4,167
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	16,064	4,154
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	16,563	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	17,072	4,126
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	17,575	4,109
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	18,094	4,081
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	18,621	4,047
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	19,157	4,006
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	19,698	3,968
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	20,242	3,945
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	20,788	3,925
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	21,336	3,839
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	21,889	3,790

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

Croatia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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