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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Jordan	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	273,409

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

Jordan

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
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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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