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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	Ghana	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	19,327	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	19,792	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	20,280	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	20,806	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	21,350	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	21,900	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	22,469	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	23,058	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	23,661	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	24,270	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	24,899	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	25,559	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	26,244	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	26,945	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	27,664	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	28,405	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	29,146	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	29,879	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	30,617	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	31,362	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	32,111	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	32,864	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	33,622	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	34,280	17,288

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.