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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Italy	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	56,940	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	56,966	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	57,004	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	57,114	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,423	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	57,852	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	58,191	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	58,424	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	58,781	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	59,236	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	59,580	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	59,844	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	60,052	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	60,216	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	60,337	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	60,346	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	60,255	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	60,140	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	60,027	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	59,902	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	59,754	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	59,464	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	59,158	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	58,966	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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