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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	United States	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	279,040	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	282,162	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	284,969	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	287,625	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	290,108	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	292,805	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	295,517	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	298,380	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	301,231	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	304,094	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	306,772	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	309,327	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	311,583	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	313,878	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	316,060	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	318,386	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	320,739	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	323,072	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	325,122	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	326,838	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	328,330	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	331,512	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	332,032	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	333,288	146,693

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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