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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 BarbadosIndonesiaJamaica
273208,1052,643
274211,4082,670
275214,4752,694
276217,5162,707
278220,5492,709
279224,4732,711
280227,5342,711
281230,7392,710
282233,9182,708
283237,0562,705
285240,1402,702
286243,1712,697
287246,1502,692
288249,0862,686
289251,9472,682
290254,7022,678
291257,3512,675
291259,9062,674
292262,3792,673
293264,7892,673
294267,1422,674
294269,4372,675
295271,6742,676
295273,4092,676

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

Jamaica

  • 1850 - 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)

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