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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosNorth KoreaIsrael
27322,5945,927
27422,7856,088
27522,9776,236
27623,1656,366
27823,3306,484
27923,4776,603
28023,6216,723
28123,7646,846
28223,9086,972
28324,0517,100
28524,1917,226
28624,3267,360
28724,4577,498
28824,5897,637
28924,7207,781
29024,8527,931
29124,9838,091
29125,1158,251
29225,2488,412
29325,3818,576
29425,4978,742
29425,6088,899
29525,7119,047
29525,8089,188

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.

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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

North Korea

  • 1911-1940: 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.
  • 1990-2011: 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.

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.