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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	19,715

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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