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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	Poland	Burkina Faso	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	38,358	11,075	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	38,344	11,405	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	38,339	11,828	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,320	12,380	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,283	12,829	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,268	13,178	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	38,249	13,540	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	38,220	13,917	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,204	14,309	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	38,204	14,722	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	38,572	15,152	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	38,606	15,600	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	38,615	16,064	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	38,623	16,563	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	38,591	17,072	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	38,573	17,575	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	38,544	18,094	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	38,516	18,621	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	38,511	19,157	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	38,502	19,698	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	38,475	20,242	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,443	20,788	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,250	21,336	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	37,914	21,889	110,593

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.