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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Lebanon	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	68,093

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

Lebanon

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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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