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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	China
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	1,401,693

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;

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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