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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Chile	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,140	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,340	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	275	15,513	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	276	15,686	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	278	15,859	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,029	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,222	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,364	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,536	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,700	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,864	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,999	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	287	17,189	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	17,378	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	17,545	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	290	17,720	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	17,904	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	291	18,099	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	292	18,350	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	293	18,681	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,035	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,385	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,604	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,715	51,731

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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