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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	110,593

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

South Korea

1911-1990: 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
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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; the database as a whole is cited above.