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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	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	66,001	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	67,377	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	68,790	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	70,269	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	71,785	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	73,298	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	74,832	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	76,432	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	78,140	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	79,945	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	81,840	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	83,844	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	85,969	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	88,198	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	90,566	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	93,009	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	95,432	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	97,882	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	100,303	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	102,617	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	104,816	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	106,893	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	108,871	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	110,593	108,171

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.

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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