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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	Oman	Ecuador	Uzbekistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,348	12,268	24,701
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,403	12,446	25,042
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,457	12,629	25,372
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,510	12,827	25,696
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,562	13,074	25,992
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,613	13,368	26,268
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,663	13,661	26,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,713	13,915	26,812
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,764	14,133	27,081
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,816	14,352	27,347
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,871	14,569	27,609
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,928	14,786	27,869
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,986	15,002	28,132
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,047	15,218	28,398
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,110	15,433	28,666
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,174	15,647	28,934
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,240	15,860	29,205
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,307	16,072	29,480
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,375	16,282	29,756
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,444	16,489	30,031
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,512	16,693	30,305
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,582	16,894	30,576
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,651	17,093	30,843
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,696	17,288	31,337

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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