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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Iraq	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	121,234

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.

All data sources

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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