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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Russia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	147,218	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	146,600	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	145,980	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	145,310	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	144,652	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	144,071	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,522	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	143,053	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	142,809	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	142,746	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	142,789	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	142,853	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	142,964	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	143,205	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	143,510	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	146,094	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	146,410	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	146,678	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	146,846	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	146,834	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	146,768	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	146,463	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	145,849	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	146,693	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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