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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	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	81,439	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	81,474	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	81,534	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	81,595	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	81,566	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	81,473	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	81,354	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	81,190	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	81,009	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	80,781	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	80,500	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	80,301	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	80,292	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	80,443	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	80,663	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	81,000	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	81,704	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	82,366	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,674	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	82,923	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	83,110	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	83,178	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	83,213	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	83,811	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.

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.

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.