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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	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	11,075	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	11,405	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	12,380	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	12,829	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	13,178	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	13,540	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	13,917	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	14,309	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	14,722	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	15,152	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	15,600	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	16,064	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	16,563	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	17,072	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	17,575	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	18,094	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	18,621	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	19,157	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	19,698	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	20,242	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	20,788	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	21,336	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	21,889	10,200

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.

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,

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