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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	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	1,883

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, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.