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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosSaudi ArabiaSouth Korea
27319,96446,617
27420,42647,008
27520,95647,370
27621,54947,645
27822,18947,892
27922,85048,083
28023,51648,185
28124,17848,438
28224,84148,684
28325,51849,055
28526,22749,308
28627,06849,554
28727,81049,937
28828,51650,200
28929,22050,429
29029,93650,747
29130,64651,015
29131,36051,218
29232,18451,362
29332,86951,585
29433,66151,765
29434,54251,836
29533,65151,745
29534,08151,731

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

South Korea

  • 1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
  • 1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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