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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Nigeria
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	121,649
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	125,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	128,513
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	132,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	135,971
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	139,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	143,914
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	148,019
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	152,195
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	156,434
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	160,751
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	165,142
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	169,607
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	174,142
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	178,737
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	183,362
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	187,979
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	192,594
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	197,417
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	202,498
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	207,699
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	213,021
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	218,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	223,735

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

Nigeria

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.

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