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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Philippines	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	79,346	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,131	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	83,023	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	84,876	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	86,697	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	88,568	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	90,418	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	92,253	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	94,098	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	95,923	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	97,627	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	99,317	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	100,999	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	102,618	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	104,299	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	106,076	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	107,868	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	109,493	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	111,094	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	112,843	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	114,636	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	117,026	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	119,473	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	121,234	68,387

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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