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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	51,731

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;

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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