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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Cuba	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	146,693

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

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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