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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	China	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,248,899	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,258,401	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,267,178	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,275,379	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,283,064	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,290,620	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,298,245	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,305,116	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,311,877	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,318,559	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,324,993	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,331,357	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,339,549	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,349,537	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,357,520	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,366,654	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,373,406	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,382,401	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,390,136	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,395,398	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,400,035	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,402,060	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,402,537	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,401,693	34,280

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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