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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 IndiaBarbadosSão Tomé & Príncipe
1,000,965273138
1,018,667274141
1,036,256275144
1,053,663276147
1,070,882278151
1,087,941279154
1,104,803280158
1,121,354281161
1,137,576282165
1,153,547283168
1,169,239285172
1,184,638286176
1,199,810287180
1,214,839288183
1,229,765289187
1,244,577290190
1,259,236291194
1,273,693291198
1,287,902292201
1,301,821293204
1,315,530294208
1,329,062294212
1,339,912295216
1,349,060295220

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

No separate list is published for Barbados, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.