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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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