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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	8,834

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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