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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	5,216

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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