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Population, long-run history by country
Population, long-run history
Annual, Persons, thousands
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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
| Date | Barbados | Egypt | Moldova |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273 | 66,001 | 4,244 | |
| 274 | 67,377 | 4,199 | |
| 275 | 68,790 | 4,154 | |
| 276 | 70,269 | 4,108 | |
| 278 | 71,785 | 4,059 | |
| 279 | 73,298 | 4,013 | |
| 280 | 74,832 | 3,966 | |
| 281 | 76,432 | 3,919 | |
| 282 | 78,140 | 3,873 | |
| 283 | 79,945 | 3,829 | |
| 285 | 81,840 | 3,788 | |
| 286 | 83,844 | 3,748 | |
| 287 | 85,969 | 3,709 | |
| 288 | 88,198 | 3,671 | |
| 289 | 90,566 | 3,633 | |
| 290 | 93,009 | 3,595 | |
| 291 | 95,432 | 3,558 | |
| 291 | 97,882 | 3,522 | |
| 292 | 100,303 | 3,485 | |
| 293 | 102,617 | 3,448 | |
| 294 | 104,816 | 3,412 | |
| 294 | 106,893 | 3,376 | |
| 295 | 108,871 | 3,339 | |
| 295 | 110,593 | 3,570 |
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.
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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.