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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ghana	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,327	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,792	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,280	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,806	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,350	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,900	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	22,469	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,058	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,661	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	24,270	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,899	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	25,559	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	26,244	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	26,945	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,664	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,405	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,146	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,879	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	30,617	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,362	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	32,111	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,864	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,622	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,280	1,349,060

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

Ghana

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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