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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	Sweden
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	8,858
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	8,872
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	8,896
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	8,925
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	8,958
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	8,994
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	9,030
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	9,081
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	9,148
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	9,220
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	9,299
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	9,378
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	9,449
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	9,519
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	9,600
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	9,696
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	9,799
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	9,923
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	10,058
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	10,175
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	10,279
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	10,354
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	10,416
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	10,487

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

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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