Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	North Macedonia	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	68,093

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

North Macedonia

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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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