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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosTrinidad & TobagoIndia
2731,3011,000,965
2741,3031,018,667
2751,3081,036,256
2761,3141,053,663
2781,3201,070,882
2791,3261,087,941
2801,3321,104,803
2811,3381,121,354
2821,3441,137,576
2831,3521,153,547
2851,3591,169,239
2861,3651,184,638
2871,3721,199,810
2881,3791,214,839
2891,3861,229,765
2901,3921,244,577
2911,3991,259,236
2911,4051,273,693
2921,4111,287,902
2931,4361,301,821
2941,4521,315,530
2941,4481,329,062
2951,4501,339,912
2951,4561,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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