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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	Iran	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	64,704	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	65,411	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	66,167	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	66,689	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	67,807	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	68,480	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	69,325	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	70,158	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	71,040	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	71,942	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	72,888	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	73,826	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	74,625	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	75,446	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	76,418	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	77,521	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	78,652	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	79,700	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	80,725	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	81,721	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	82,685	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	83,614	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	84,505	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	85,108	11,695

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.

Iran

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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