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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	8,834

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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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