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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	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	121,234

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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