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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	South Korea	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	46,617	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	47,008	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	47,370	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	47,645	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	47,892	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	48,083	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	48,185	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	48,438	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	48,684	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	49,055	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	49,308	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	49,554	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	49,937	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	50,200	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	50,429	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	50,747	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	51,015	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	51,218	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	51,362	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	51,585	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	51,765	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	51,836	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	51,745	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	51,731	9,188

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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; the database as a whole is cited above.