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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	Iceland	Barbados	Belgium	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	10,227	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	10,252	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	10,288	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	10,334	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	10,377	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	10,422	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	10,480	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	10,549	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	10,627	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	10,711	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	10,797	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	10,897	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	11,039	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	11,108	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	11,160	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	11,210	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	11,275	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	11,332	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	11,376	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	11,429	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	11,491	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	11,546	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	11,594	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	11,695	17,288

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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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.