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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Germany	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	273	81,439	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,474	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	275	81,534	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	276	81,595	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	278	81,566	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	279	81,473	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	280	81,354	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	281	81,190	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	282	81,009	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	283	80,781	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	285	80,500	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	286	80,301	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	287	80,292	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	288	80,443	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,663	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	290	81,000	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	291	81,704	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	291	82,366	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	292	82,674	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	293	82,923	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	294	83,110	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	83,178	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	295	83,213	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	83,811	10,849

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Jordan

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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