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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	Chad
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	12,268	7,559
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	12,446	7,821
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	12,629	8,092
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	12,827	8,395
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	13,074	8,763
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	13,368	9,191
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	13,661	9,594
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	13,915	9,967
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	14,133	10,338
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	14,352	10,728
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	14,569	11,139
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	14,786	11,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	15,002	11,983
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	15,218	12,427
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	15,433	12,895
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	15,647	13,379
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	15,860	13,823
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	16,072	14,277
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	16,282	14,765
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	16,489	15,252
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	16,693	15,750
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	16,894	16,257
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	17,093	16,776
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	17,288	17,307

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, Chad; the database as a whole is cited above.