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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	8,834

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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