Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Africa	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,257	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	274	46,958	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,820	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	276	48,480	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	278	48,951	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	279	49,478	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	280	50,054	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	281	50,667	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	282	51,339	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	283	52,077	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	52,862	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	286	53,682	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	287	54,518	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	288	55,356	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	289	56,215	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	290	57,075	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	291	57,947	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	291	58,830	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	59,715	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	60,595	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	294	61,469	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	294	62,355	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	295	62,900	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	295	63,382	9,188

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Israel

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

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