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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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