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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	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	12,268	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	12,446	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	12,629	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	12,827	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	13,074	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	13,368	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	13,661	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	13,915	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	14,133	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	14,352	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	14,569	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	14,786	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	15,002	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	15,218	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	15,433	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	15,647	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	15,860	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	16,072	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	16,282	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	16,489	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	16,693	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	16,894	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	17,093	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	17,288	28,418

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.

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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