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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	17,288

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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