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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	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	34,280

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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