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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Syria	United States
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,930	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	274	16,329	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,730	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	276	17,132	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,534	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,942	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,423	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	281	19,252	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,493	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,221	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,542	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	286	22,050	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,458	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,258	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,901	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	290	19,318	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	291	18,272	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	291	17,669	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	17,327	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	293	17,601	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	294	18,440	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,241	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	295	20,226	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	295	20,985	333,288

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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