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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	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	12,268	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	12,446	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	12,629	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	12,827	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	13,074	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	13,368	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	13,661	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	13,915	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	14,133	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	14,352	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	14,569	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	14,786	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	15,002	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	15,218	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	15,433	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	15,647	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	15,860	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	16,072	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	16,282	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	16,489	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	16,693	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	16,894	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	17,093	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	17,288	63,382

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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