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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Hungary	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,244	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,218	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,194	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,165	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,136	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,114	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,094	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,078	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,062	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,045	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,029	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,007	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,978	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,927	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,900	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	290	9,873	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,850	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,821	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	292	9,794	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	293	9,782	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	294	9,778	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	294	9,757	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,716	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,690	47,625

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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