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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	121,234

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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