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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	Iraq	Albania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	3,085	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	3,065	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	3,047	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	3,038	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	3,026	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	3,014	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	2,998	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	2,979	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	2,957	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	2,934	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	2,915	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	2,900	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	2,892	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	2,888	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	2,882	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	2,876	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	2,868	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	2,863	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	2,861	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	2,854	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	2,842	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	2,825	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	2,799	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	2,787	108,171

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

Iraq

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, Albania, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.