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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Netherlands	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,817	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,932	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,052	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,155	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	16,231	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	16,288	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	16,326	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	16,352	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	16,388	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	16,452	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	16,536	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	16,621	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	16,699	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	16,761	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	16,810	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	16,871	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	16,946	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,036	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,137	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,238	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	17,351	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	17,448	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,539	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,709	5,458

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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