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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	1,349,060

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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