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 BarbadosNorwayUzbekistan
2734,46324,701
2744,49225,042
2754,51525,372
2764,53925,696
2784,56625,992
2794,59326,268
2804,62426,540
2814,66226,812
2824,71027,081
2834,76927,347
2854,83027,609
2864,89027,869
2874,95428,132
2885,02028,398
2895,08128,666
2905,13828,934
2915,19129,205
2915,23729,480
2925,27829,756
2935,31330,031
2945,34930,305
2945,38030,576
2955,40930,843
2955,45831,337

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

Norway

  • 1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
  • 1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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