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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	Portugal	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,144	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,215	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,344	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,383	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,408	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,427	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,446	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,467	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,482	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,492	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,497	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,481	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,439	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,382	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,326	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,283	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,251	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,226	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,209	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,212	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,223	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,214	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,200	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.

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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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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; the database as a whole is cited above.