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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Mexico	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	97,242	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	98,403	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	99,599	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	100,863	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	102,132	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	103,334	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	104,508	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	105,738	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	107,083	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	108,554	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	110,061	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	111,468	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	112,826	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	114,163	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	115,471	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	116,757	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	118,017	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	117,444	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	118,799	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	120,289	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	121,872	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	123,260	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	124,462	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	125,247	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

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

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.