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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United States	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	87,201

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).

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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