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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Belgium	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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