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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosSerbiaJapan
2737,611126,512
2747,587126,755
2757,574127,056
2767,570127,324
2787,551127,558
2797,533127,658
2807,510127,679
2817,481127,762
2827,451127,904
2837,419127,969
2857,389127,958
2867,360127,967
2877,304127,755
2887,269127,476
2897,234127,257
2907,199127,186
2917,162127,034
2917,124126,857
2927,087126,631
2937,048126,368
2947,010126,092
2946,964125,634
2956,898125,427
2956,833124,762

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

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Japan

  • 724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
  • 1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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