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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Uganda	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,408	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	24,195	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,992	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	25,846	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	26,661	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	27,414	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	28,200	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	29,021	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	29,846	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	30,647	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	31,469	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	32,343	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	33,257	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,234	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,271	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	36,419	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	37,673	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	39,157	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	40,879	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	42,329	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	43,639	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	45,120	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,645	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	48,065	110,593

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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; the database as a whole is cited above.