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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	Malaysia	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,132	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,695	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,291	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,874	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,437	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,993	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,543	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,086	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,620	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,161	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,715	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,268	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,750	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	29,163	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,568	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,977	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,387	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	30,782	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	31,164	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,539	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	31,903	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,257	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	32,603	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	32,956	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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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.