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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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