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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	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	28,418

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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