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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United Kingdom	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	273	58,946	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	274	59,149	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	275	59,377	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	276	59,631	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	278	59,903	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	279	60,217	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	280	60,682	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	281	61,098	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	282	61,593	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	283	62,100	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	62,539	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	286	63,040	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	287	63,567	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	288	63,989	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	289	64,392	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	290	64,885	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	291	65,400	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	291	65,941	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	292	66,335	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	293	66,732	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,095	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,380	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	295	67,651	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,093	48,065

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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