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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	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,741	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,847	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,917	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,978	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,983	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,005	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,138	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,311	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,469	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,603	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,708	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,817	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,984	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,141	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,244	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	290	4,348	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	291	4,460	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	291	4,576	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	292	4,689	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	293	4,810	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	294	4,904	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,005	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,109	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,216	20,985

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.

Syria

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.