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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	China	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	1,248,899	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	1,258,401	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	1,267,178	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	1,275,379	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	1,283,064	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	1,290,620	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	1,298,245	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	1,305,116	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	1,311,877	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	1,318,559	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	1,324,993	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	1,331,357	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	1,339,549	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	1,349,537	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	1,357,520	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	1,366,654	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	1,373,406	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	1,382,401	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	1,390,136	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	1,395,398	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	1,400,035	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	1,402,060	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	1,402,537	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	1,401,693	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

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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