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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Mexico	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	97,242	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	98,403	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	99,599	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	100,863	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	102,132	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	103,334	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	104,508	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	105,738	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	107,083	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	108,554	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	110,061	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	111,468	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	112,826	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	114,163	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	115,471	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	116,757	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	118,017	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	117,444	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	118,799	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	120,289	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	121,872	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	123,260	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	124,462	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	125,247	110,593

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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

Egypt

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.