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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	121,234

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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