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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	Iceland	Bangladesh	China
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	132,907	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	135,207	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	137,420	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	139,573	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	141,650	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	143,644	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	145,546	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	147,376	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	149,047	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	150,562	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	152,189	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	153,927	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	155,634	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	157,326	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	158,999	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	160,650	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	162,273	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	163,938	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	165,655	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	167,358	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	169,045	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	170,709	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	172,354	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	174,217	1,401,693

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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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