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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	11,075	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	11,405	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	11,828	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	12,380	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	12,829	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	13,178	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	13,540	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	13,917	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	14,309	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	14,722	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	15,152	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	15,600	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	16,064	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	16,563	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	17,072	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	17,575	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	18,094	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	18,621	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	19,157	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	19,698	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	20,242	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	20,788	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	21,336	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	21,889	4,713

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

Lebanon

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.