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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	Ecuador	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	12,268	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	12,446	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	12,629	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	12,827	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	13,074	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	13,368	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	13,661	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	13,915	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	14,133	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	14,352	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	14,569	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	14,786	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	15,002	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	15,218	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	15,433	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	15,647	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	15,860	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	16,072	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	16,282	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	16,489	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	16,693	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	16,894	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	17,093	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	17,288	6,910

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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