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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	China	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,248,899	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,258,401	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,267,178	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,275,379	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,283,064	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,290,620	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,298,245	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,305,116	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,311,877	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,318,559	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,324,993	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,331,357	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,339,549	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,349,537	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,357,520	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,366,654	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,373,406	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,382,401	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,390,136	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,395,398	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,400,035	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,402,060	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,402,537	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,401,693	28,418

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.

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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