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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	Sudan	Egypt	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	26,168	66,001	273
Dec 31, 2000	26,771	67,377	274
Dec 31, 2001	27,387	68,790	275
Dec 31, 2002	28,017	70,269	276
Dec 31, 2003	28,662	71,785	278
Dec 31, 2004	29,321	73,298	279
Dec 31, 2005	29,996	74,832	280
Dec 31, 2006	30,686	76,432	281
Dec 31, 2007	31,393	78,140	282
Dec 31, 2008	32,137	79,945	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,078	81,840	285
Dec 31, 2010	33,891	83,844	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,568	85,969	287
Dec 31, 2012	35,293	88,198	288
Dec 31, 2013	36,093	90,566	289
Dec 31, 2014	37,058	93,009	290
Dec 31, 2015	38,165	95,432	291
Dec 31, 2016	39,294	97,882	291
Dec 31, 2017	40,512	100,303	292
Dec 31, 2018	41,764	102,617	293
Dec 31, 2019	42,952	104,816	294
Dec 31, 2020	44,121	106,893	294
Dec 31, 2021	45,290	108,871	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,498	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.

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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

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