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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	New Zealand
Dec 31, 1999	273	16,728	3,890
Dec 31, 2000	274	17,236	3,912
Dec 31, 2001	275	17,762	3,947
Dec 31, 2002	276	18,310	4,018
Dec 31, 2003	278	18,855	4,094
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,410	4,151
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,000	4,198
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,611	4,248
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,236	4,287
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,878	4,323
Dec 31, 2009	285	22,533	4,370
Dec 31, 2010	286	23,195	4,416
Dec 31, 2011	287	23,880	4,446
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,594	4,471
Dec 31, 2013	289	25,311	4,516
Dec 31, 2014	290	26,020	4,597
Dec 31, 2015	291	26,698	4,695
Dec 31, 2016	291	27,347	4,800
Dec 31, 2017	292	27,985	4,897
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,608	4,982
Dec 31, 2019	294	29,216	5,074
Dec 31, 2020	294	29,811	5,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	30,399	5,188
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,058	5,245

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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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