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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Syria	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	68,387

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

Syria

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

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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