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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	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	16,728	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	274	17,236	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	275	17,762	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	276	18,310	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	278	18,855	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,410	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,000	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,611	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,236	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,878	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	285	22,533	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	286	23,195	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	287	23,880	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,594	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	289	25,311	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	290	26,020	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	291	26,698	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	291	27,347	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	292	27,985	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,608	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	294	29,216	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	294	29,811	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	295	30,399	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,058	3,422

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

Uruguay

1800-1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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