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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	China	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,248,899	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,258,401	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,267,178	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,275,379	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,283,064	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,290,620	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,298,245	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,305,116	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,311,877	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,318,559	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,324,993	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,331,357	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,339,549	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,349,537	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,357,520	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,366,654	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,373,406	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,382,401	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,390,136	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,395,398	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,400,035	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,402,060	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,402,537	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,401,693	28,237

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, Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.