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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosYemenAlbaniaEgypt
27316,7283,08566,001
27417,2363,06567,377
27517,7623,04768,790
27618,3103,03870,269
27818,8553,02671,785
27919,4103,01473,298
28020,0002,99874,832
28120,6112,97976,432
28221,2362,95778,140
28321,8782,93479,945
28522,5332,91581,840
28623,1952,90083,844
28723,8802,89285,969
28824,5942,88888,198
28925,3112,88290,566
29026,0202,87693,009
29126,6982,86895,432
29127,3472,86397,882
29227,9852,861100,303
29328,6082,854102,617
29429,2162,842104,816
29429,8112,825106,893
29530,3992,799108,871
29531,0582,787110,593

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.

All data sources

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

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, Yemen, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.