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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	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

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

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.