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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Japan	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	11,003

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

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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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