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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosLuxembourgAlbaniaEgypt
2734333,08566,001
2744383,06567,377
2754433,04768,790
2764483,03870,269
2784543,02671,785
2794603,01473,298
2804672,99874,832
2814742,97976,432
2824822,95778,140
2834912,93479,945
2855002,91581,840
2865092,90083,844
2875212,89285,969
2885332,88888,198
2895472,88290,566
2905602,87693,009
2915712,86895,432
2915862,86397,882
2925992,861100,303
2936102,854102,617
2946232,842104,816
2946332,825106,893
2956432,799108,871
2956512,787110,593

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.

All data sources

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

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, Luxembourg, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.