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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	10,849

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;

Jordan

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
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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.