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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	Ukraine
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	49,491
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	49,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	48,520
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	48,074
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	47,692
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	47,342
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	47,003
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	46,685
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	46,407
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	46,156
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	45,951
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	45,768
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	45,604
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	45,492
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	45,389
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	44,944
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	44,429
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	44,208
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	44,029
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	43,944
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	43,951
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	43,904
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	43,746
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	39,897

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