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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 EgyptParaguayBarbados
66,0015,366273
67,3775,473274
68,7905,579275
70,2695,683276
71,7855,786278
73,2985,886279
74,8325,984280
76,4326,080281
78,1406,173282
79,9456,264283
81,8406,352285
83,8446,438286
85,9696,522287
88,1986,605288
90,5666,688289
93,0096,769290
95,4326,850291
97,8826,930291
100,3037,012292
102,6177,095293
104,8167,179294
106,8937,263294
108,8717,348295
110,5937,432295

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