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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	India	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,000,965	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,018,667	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,036,256	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,053,663	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,070,882	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,087,941	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,104,803	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,121,354	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,137,576	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,153,547	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,169,239	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,184,638	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,199,810	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,214,839	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,229,765	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,244,577	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,259,236	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,273,693	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,287,902	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,301,821	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,315,530	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,329,062	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,339,912	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,349,060	21,889

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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