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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	China	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,248,899	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,258,401	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,267,178	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,275,379	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,283,064	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,290,620	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,298,245	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,305,116	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,311,877	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,318,559	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,324,993	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,331,357	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,339,549	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,349,537	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,357,520	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,366,654	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,373,406	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,382,401	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,390,136	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,395,398	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,400,035	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,402,060	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,402,537	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,401,693	11,003

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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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