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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	Jordan	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	4,591	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	4,700	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	4,811	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	4,923	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	5,037	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	5,161	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	5,295	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	5,765	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	6,243	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	6,397	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	6,538	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	6,680	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	6,840	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	6,952	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	7,706	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	8,839	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	9,506	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	9,863	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	10,066	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	10,273	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	10,480	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	10,628	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	10,716	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	10,849	16,514

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.

Jordan

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
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, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.