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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	France	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	60,396	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,811	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	61,255	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,703	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	62,141	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,600	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	63,073	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,513	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,906	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,264	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,594	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	64,913	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,231	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,552	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	65,891	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,212	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,480	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	66,730	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,015	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,347	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,660	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,901	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,114	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,387	124,762

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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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