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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	85,108

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.

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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