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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ghana	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,327	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,792	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,280	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,806	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,350	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,900	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	22,469	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,058	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,661	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	24,270	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,899	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	25,559	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	26,244	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	26,945	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,664	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,405	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,146	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,879	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	30,617	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	31,362	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	32,111	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	32,864	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,622	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,280	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

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.

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.