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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	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	2,059

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

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