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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	124,762

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;

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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