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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosNetherlandsCongo - Kinshasa
27315,81751,181
27415,93252,782
27516,05254,453
27616,15556,170
27816,23157,860
27916,28859,599
28016,32661,474
28116,35263,479
28216,38865,590
28316,45267,800
28516,53670,114
28616,62172,550
28716,69975,138
28816,76177,792
28916,81080,534
29016,87183,368
29116,94686,229
29117,03689,193
29217,13792,209
29317,23895,232
29417,35198,320
29417,448101,499
29517,539104,767
29517,709108,171

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

Netherlands

  • 1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
  • 1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
  • 1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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