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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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