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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	11,003

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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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