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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	34,280

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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