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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	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	9,690

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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