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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	Belgium	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	10,227	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	10,252	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	10,288	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	10,334	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	10,377	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	10,422	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	10,480	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	10,549	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	10,627	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	10,711	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	10,797	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	10,897	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	11,039	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	11,108	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	11,160	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	11,210	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	11,275	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	11,332	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	11,376	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	11,429	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	11,491	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	11,546	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	11,594	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	11,695	5,750

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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