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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BeninEgyptParaguay
6,46166,0015,366
6,67767,3775,473
6,90268,7905,579
7,13070,2695,683
7,36071,7855,786
7,58973,2985,886
7,83874,8325,984
8,08976,4326,080
8,33578,1406,173
8,60379,9456,264
8,88481,8406,352
9,17983,8446,438
9,48685,9696,522
9,80588,1986,605
10,13590,5666,688
10,48093,0096,769
10,84295,4326,850
11,22097,8826,930
11,613100,3037,012
12,018102,6177,095
12,370104,8167,179
12,725106,8937,263
13,081108,8717,348
13,439110,5937,432

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

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 Benin, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.