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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	17,288

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.

All data sources

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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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