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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	Saudi Arabia	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	83,811

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

Saudi Arabia

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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