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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	Jordan	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	39,252

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.

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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

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