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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ghana	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,327	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,792	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,280	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,806	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,350	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,900	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	22,469	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,058	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,661	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	24,270	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,899	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	25,559	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	26,244	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	26,945	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,664	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,405	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,146	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,879	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	30,617	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,362	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	32,111	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,864	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,622	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,280	110,593

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.