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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bulgaria	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,091	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,052	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,798	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,755	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,710	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,668	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,628	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,587	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,549	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,513	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,475	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,425	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,242	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,200	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,160	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,119	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,074	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,024	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,973	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,923	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,874	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,833	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,778	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,720	51,731

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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