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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosIsraelSingapore
2735,9273,959
2746,0884,028
2756,2364,138
2766,3664,176
2786,4844,115
2796,6034,167
2806,7234,266
2816,8464,401
2826,9724,589
2837,1004,839
2857,2264,988
2867,3605,077
2877,4985,184
2887,6375,312
2897,7815,399
2907,9315,470
2918,0915,535
2918,2515,607
2928,4125,612
2938,5765,639
2948,7425,704
2948,8995,686
2959,0475,716
2959,1885,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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