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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	Mali	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,596	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,833	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,890	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,007	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,307	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,579	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,804	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	12,043	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	12,337	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	12,657	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	12,986	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	13,325	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	13,679	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	14,040	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	14,412	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	14,803	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,210	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	15,629	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,060	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,507	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,967	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,442	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,930	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	18,494	11,003

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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