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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	Montenegro	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	623	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	623	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	623	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	622	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	621	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	621	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	621	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	620	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	620	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	621	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	622	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	623	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	622	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	622	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	622	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	621	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	620	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	618	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	616	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	614	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	613	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	612	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	611	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	610	83,811

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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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