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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	11,003

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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

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