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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Egypt	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	1,349,060

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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