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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 Africa	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	46,257	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	46,958	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	47,820	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	48,480	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	48,951	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	49,478	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	50,054	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	50,667	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	51,339	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	52,077	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	52,862	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	53,682	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	54,518	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	55,356	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	56,215	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	57,075	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	57,947	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	58,830	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	59,715	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	60,595	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	61,469	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	62,355	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	62,900	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	63,382	17,288

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 Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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