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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	Germany	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	81,439	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	81,474	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	81,534	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	81,595	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	81,566	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	81,473	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	81,354	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	81,190	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	81,009	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	80,781	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	80,500	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	80,301	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	80,292	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	80,443	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	80,663	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	81,000	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	81,704	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	82,366	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,674	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	82,923	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	83,110	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	83,178	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	83,213	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	83,811	110,593

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Egypt

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; the database as a whole is cited above.