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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,132	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,695	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,291	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	23,874	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,437	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,993	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,543	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,086	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,620	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,161	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,715	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,268	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,750	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	29,163	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,568	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,977	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,387	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	30,782	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	31,164	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,539	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	31,903	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,257	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	32,603	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	32,956	4,713

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

Lebanon

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; the database as a whole is cited above.