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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	125,247

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.

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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