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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Japan	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	110,593

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.

Egypt

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

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