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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	40,364

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

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

Iraq

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.