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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Iraq	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	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

Iraq

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.