Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

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

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosNetherlandsHong Kong SAR China
27315,8176,587
27415,9326,646
27516,0526,695
27616,1556,725
27816,2316,712
27916,2886,765
28016,3266,794
28116,3526,838
28216,3886,897
28316,4526,938
28516,5366,953
28616,6217,004
28716,6997,052
28816,7617,130
28916,8107,159
29016,8717,209
29116,9467,271
29117,0367,316
29217,1377,372
29317,2387,432
29417,3517,487
29417,4487,460
29517,5397,392
29517,7097,387

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

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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.