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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	40,364

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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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.