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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	Burkina Faso	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	11,075	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	11,405	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	11,828	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	12,380	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	12,829	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	13,178	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	13,540	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	13,917	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	14,309	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	14,722	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	15,152	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	15,600	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	16,064	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	16,563	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	17,072	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	17,575	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	18,094	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	18,621	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	19,157	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	19,698	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	20,242	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	20,788	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	21,336	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	21,889	3,570

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, Burkina Faso, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.