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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	124,762

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

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.

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