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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 EgyptPuerto RicoBarbados
66,0013,800273
67,3773,811274
68,7903,819275
70,2693,824276
71,7853,826278
73,2983,827279
74,8323,822280
76,4323,805281
78,1403,783282
79,9453,761283
81,8403,741285
83,8443,722286
85,9693,679287
88,1983,636288
90,5663,589289
93,0093,534290
95,4323,473291
97,8823,411291
100,3033,352292
102,6173,295293
104,8163,268294
106,8933,247294
108,8713,232295
110,5933,228295

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 Puerto Rico, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.