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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	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	5,458

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

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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