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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	5,750

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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