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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	17,709

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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