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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	Burkina Faso	Egypt	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	66,001	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	67,377	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	68,790	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	70,269	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	71,785	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	73,298	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	74,832	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	76,432	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	78,140	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	79,945	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	81,840	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	83,844	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	85,969	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	88,198	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	90,566	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	93,009	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	95,432	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	97,882	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	100,303	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	102,617	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	104,816	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	106,893	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	108,871	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	110,593	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.

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.

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