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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 BarbadosIndiaSeychelles
2731,000,96578
2741,018,66779
2751,036,25680
2761,053,66381
2781,070,88282
2791,087,94183
2801,104,80384
2811,121,35485
2821,137,57686
2831,153,54787
2851,169,23987
2861,184,63888
2871,199,81089
2881,214,83990
2891,229,76591
2901,244,57792
2911,259,23692
2911,273,69393
2921,287,90294
2931,301,82195
2941,315,53096
2941,329,06297
2951,339,91298
2951,349,06098

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, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.