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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	5,750

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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