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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Belgium	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	68,093

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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