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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	10,437

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;

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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