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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Dominica	New Zealand
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	3,890
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	3,912
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	3,947
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	4,018
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	4,094
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	4,151
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	4,198
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	4,248
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	4,287
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	4,323
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	4,370
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	4,416
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	4,446
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	4,471
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	4,516
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	4,597
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	4,695
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	4,800
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	4,897
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	4,982
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	5,074
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	5,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	5,188
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	5,245

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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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