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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Egypt	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	273,409

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

Egypt

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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