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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 ArabiaPhilippines
27319,96479,346
27420,42681,131
27520,95683,023
27621,54984,876
27822,18986,697
27922,85088,568
28023,51690,418
28124,17892,253
28224,84194,098
28325,51895,923
28526,22797,627
28627,06899,317
28727,810100,999
28828,516102,618
28929,220104,299
29029,936106,076
29130,646107,868
29131,360109,493
29232,184111,094
29332,869112,843
29433,661114,636
29434,542117,026
29533,651119,473
29534,081121,234

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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