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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	Venezuela	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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.