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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	68,387

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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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