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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Italy	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	56,940	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	56,966	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	57,004	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	57,114	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,423	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	57,852	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	58,191	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	58,424	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	58,781	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	59,236	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	59,580	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	59,844	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	60,052	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	60,216	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	60,337	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	60,346	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	60,255	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	60,140	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	60,027	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	59,902	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	59,754	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	59,464	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	59,158	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	58,966	8,834

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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