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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	11,003

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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