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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United States	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	32,956

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).

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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