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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	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	1,883

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.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.