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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Panama
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	2,848
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	2,900
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	2,952
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	3,003
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	3,054
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	3,104
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	3,155
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	3,206
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	3,258
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	3,310
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	3,360
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	3,411
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	3,460
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	3,510
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	3,559
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	3,608
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	3,657
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	3,705
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	3,753
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	3,801
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	3,862
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	3,918
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	3,970
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	4,023

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

Panama

1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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