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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	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	40,364

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.

Iraq

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.