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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Italy	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	56,940	273
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	56,966	274
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	57,004	275
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	57,114	276
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	57,423	278
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	57,852	279
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	58,191	280
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	58,424	281
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	58,781	282
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	59,236	283
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	59,580	285
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	59,844	286
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	60,052	287
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	60,216	288
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	60,337	289
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	60,346	290
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	60,255	291
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	60,140	291
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	60,027	292
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	59,902	293
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	59,754	294
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	59,464	294
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	59,158	295
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	58,966	295

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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