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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	Yemen	Iceland	China
Dec 31, 1999	273	16,728	277	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	274	17,236	281	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	275	17,762	285	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	276	18,310	288	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	278	18,855	289	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,410	293	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,000	296	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,611	304	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,236	311	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,878	319	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	285	22,533	319	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	286	23,195	318	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	287	23,880	319	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,594	321	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	289	25,311	324	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	290	26,020	327	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	291	26,698	331	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	291	27,347	335	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	292	27,985	343	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,608	353	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	294	29,216	361	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	29,811	366	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	295	30,399	372	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,058	380	1,401,693

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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