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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	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	5,750

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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