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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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