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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	Syria	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	34,280

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

Syria

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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