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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosFinlandJamaica
2735,1662,643
2745,1762,670
2755,1882,694
2765,2012,707
2785,2132,709
2795,2282,711
2805,2462,711
2815,2662,710
2825,2892,708
2835,3132,705
2855,3392,702
2865,3632,697
2875,3882,692
2885,4142,686
2895,4392,682
2905,4632,678
2915,4812,675
2915,4952,674
2925,5082,673
2935,5162,673
2945,5222,674
2945,5312,675
2955,5422,676
2955,5562,676

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.

All data sources

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

Finland

  • 1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
  • 1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

Jamaica

  • 1850 - 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)

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