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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	Russia	Burkina Faso	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	11,075	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	11,405	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	11,828	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	12,380	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	12,829	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	13,178	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	13,540	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	13,917	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	14,309	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	14,722	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	15,152	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	15,600	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	16,064	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	16,563	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	17,072	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	17,575	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	18,094	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	18,621	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	19,157	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	19,698	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	20,242	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	20,788	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	21,336	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	21,889	4,713

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

Lebanon

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.