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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	19,715

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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