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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	Bulgaria
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	8,091
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	8,052
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	7,798
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	7,755
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	7,710
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	7,668
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	7,628
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	7,587
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	7,549
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	7,513
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	7,475
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	7,425
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	7,242
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	7,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	7,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	7,119
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	7,074
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	7,024
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	6,973
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	6,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	6,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	6,833
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	6,778
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	6,720

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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