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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Japan	Jamaica
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	2,643
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	2,670
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	2,694
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	2,707
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	2,709
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	2,711
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	2,711
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	2,710
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	2,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	2,705
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	2,702
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	2,697
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	2,692
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	2,686
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	2,682
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	2,678
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	2,675
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	2,674
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	2,673
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	2,673
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	2,674
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	2,675
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	2,676
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	2,676

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.

Jamaica

1850 - 1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)

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