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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEgyptPuerto Rico
27366,0013,800
27467,3773,811
27568,7903,819
27670,2693,824
27871,7853,826
27973,2983,827
28074,8323,822
28176,4323,805
28278,1403,783
28379,9453,761
28581,8403,741
28683,8443,722
28785,9693,679
28888,1983,636
28990,5663,589
29093,0093,534
29195,4323,473
29197,8823,411
292100,3033,352
293102,6173,295
294104,8163,268
294106,8933,247
295108,8713,232
295110,5933,228

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

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