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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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