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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Uganda	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,408	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	274	24,195	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,992	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	276	25,846	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	278	26,661	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	279	27,414	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	28,200	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	281	29,021	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	282	29,846	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	283	30,647	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	285	31,469	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	286	32,343	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	287	33,257	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,234	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,271	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	290	36,419	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	291	37,673	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	291	39,157	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	292	40,879	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	293	42,329	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	294	43,639	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	294	45,120	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,645	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	48,065	68,093

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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