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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosIndonesiaBulgaria
273208,1058,091
274211,4088,052
275214,4757,798
276217,5167,755
278220,5497,710
279224,4737,668
280227,5347,628
281230,7397,587
282233,9187,549
283237,0567,513
285240,1407,475
286243,1717,425
287246,1507,242
288249,0867,200
289251,9477,160
290254,7027,119
291257,3517,074
291259,9067,024
292262,3796,973
293264,7896,923
294267,1426,874
294269,4376,833
295271,6746,778
295273,4096,720

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

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

Bulgaria

  • 1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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