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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United Kingdom	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	58,946	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	59,149	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	59,377	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	59,631	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	59,903	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	60,217	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	60,682	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	61,098	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	61,593	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	62,100	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	62,539	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	63,040	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	63,567	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	63,989	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	64,392	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	64,885	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	65,400	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	65,941	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	66,335	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	66,732	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,095	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,380	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	67,651	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,093	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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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.