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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	38,685

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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