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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	Liberia	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	9,188

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.