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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	China	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,248,899	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,258,401	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,267,178	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,275,379	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,283,064	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,290,620	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,298,245	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,305,116	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,311,877	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,318,559	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,324,993	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,331,357	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,339,549	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,349,537	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,357,520	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,366,654	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,373,406	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,382,401	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,390,136	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,395,398	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,400,035	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,402,060	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,402,537	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,401,693	39,252

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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