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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	Israel	Algeria
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,927	30,083
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,088	30,515
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,236	30,952
Dec 31, 2002	276	6,366	31,397
Dec 31, 2003	278	6,484	31,847
Dec 31, 2004	279	6,603	32,320
Dec 31, 2005	280	6,723	32,785
Dec 31, 2006	281	6,846	33,286
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,972	33,866
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,100	34,480
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,226	35,126
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,360	35,805
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,498	36,506
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,637	37,215
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,781	37,930
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,931	38,650
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,091	39,372
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,251	40,087
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,412	40,787
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,576	41,471
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,742	42,135
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,899	42,779
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,047	43,401
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,188	44,114

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

Israel

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

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