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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	124,762

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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