Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Hungary	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,244	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,218	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,194	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,165	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,136	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,114	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,094	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,078	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,062	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,045	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,029	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,007	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,978	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,927	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,900	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	9,873	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,850	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,821	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	9,794	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	9,782	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	9,778	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	9,757	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,716	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,690	68,387

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.

All data sources

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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