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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	Ireland	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,757	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,807	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,866	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,934	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,000	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,070	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,163	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,273	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,403	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,499	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,542	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,563	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,581	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,600	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,623	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,655	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,699	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,752	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,805	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,864	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,930	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,983	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,022	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,118	16,514

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

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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