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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	34,280

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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