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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	Egypt	Burkina Faso	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	21,889	83,811

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

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

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.

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