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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	5,118

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

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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