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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosIcelandIsraelMoldova
2732775,9274,244
2742816,0884,199
2752856,2364,154
2762886,3664,108
2782896,4844,059
2792936,6034,013
2802966,7233,966
2813046,8463,919
2823116,9723,873
2833197,1003,829
2853197,2263,788
2863187,3603,748
2873197,4983,709
2883217,6373,671
2893247,7813,633
2903277,9313,595
2913318,0913,558
2913358,2513,522
2923438,4123,485
2933538,5763,448
2943618,7423,412
2943668,8993,376
2953729,0473,339
2953809,1883,570

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.

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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.

Israel

  • 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

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