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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Panama
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	2,848
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	2,900
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	2,952
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	3,003
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	3,054
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	3,104
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	3,155
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	3,206
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	3,258
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	3,310
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	3,360
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	3,411
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	3,460
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	3,510
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	3,559
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	3,608
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	3,657
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	3,705
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	3,753
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	3,801
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	3,862
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	3,918
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	3,970
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	4,023

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

Panama

1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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