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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	Iran	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	64,704	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	65,411	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	66,167	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	66,689	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	67,807	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	68,480	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	69,325	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	70,158	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	71,040	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	71,942	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	72,888	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	73,826	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	74,625	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	75,446	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	76,418	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	77,521	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	78,652	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	79,700	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	80,725	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	81,721	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	82,685	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,614	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	84,505	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	85,108	146,693

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

Iran

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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