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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	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	5,216

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

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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