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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	51,181	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	52,782	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	54,453	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	56,170	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	57,860	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	59,599	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	61,474	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	63,479	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	65,590	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	67,800	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	70,114	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	72,550	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	75,138	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	77,792	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	80,534	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	83,368	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	86,229	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	89,193	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	92,209	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	95,232	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	98,320	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	101,499	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	104,767	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	108,171	40,364

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.

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

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