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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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