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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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