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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	47,625

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.

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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