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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United States	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	5,216

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.

All data sources

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

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).

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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