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Population, long-run history by country
Population, long-run history
Annual, Persons, thousands
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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
| Date | Barbados | Japan | Israel |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273 | 126,512 | 5,927 | |
| 274 | 126,755 | 6,088 | |
| 275 | 127,056 | 6,236 | |
| 276 | 127,324 | 6,366 | |
| 278 | 127,558 | 6,484 | |
| 279 | 127,658 | 6,603 | |
| 280 | 127,679 | 6,723 | |
| 281 | 127,762 | 6,846 | |
| 282 | 127,904 | 6,972 | |
| 283 | 127,969 | 7,100 | |
| 285 | 127,958 | 7,226 | |
| 286 | 127,967 | 7,360 | |
| 287 | 127,755 | 7,498 | |
| 288 | 127,476 | 7,637 | |
| 289 | 127,257 | 7,781 | |
| 290 | 127,186 | 7,931 | |
| 291 | 127,034 | 8,091 | |
| 291 | 126,857 | 8,251 | |
| 292 | 126,631 | 8,412 | |
| 293 | 126,368 | 8,576 | |
| 294 | 126,092 | 8,742 | |
| 294 | 125,634 | 8,899 | |
| 295 | 125,427 | 9,047 | |
| 295 | 124,762 | 9,188 |
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.
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.
Israel
- 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
No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.