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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	68,387

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;

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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