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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	11,075	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	11,405	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	11,828	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	12,380	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	12,829	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	13,178	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	13,540	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	13,917	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	14,309	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	14,722	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	15,152	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	15,600	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	16,064	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	16,563	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	17,072	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	17,575	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	18,094	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	18,621	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	19,157	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	19,698	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	20,242	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	20,788	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	21,336	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	21,889	530

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

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