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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Ecuador	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	12,268	273
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	12,446	274
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	12,629	275
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	12,827	276
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	13,074	278
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	13,368	279
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	13,661	280
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	13,915	281
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	14,133	282
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	14,352	283
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	14,569	285
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	14,786	286
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	15,002	287
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	15,218	288
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	15,433	289
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	15,647	290
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	15,860	291
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	16,072	291
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	16,282	292
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	16,489	293
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	16,693	294
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	16,894	294
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	17,093	295
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	17,288	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

Iran

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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