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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	United States	Ukraine
Dec 31, 1999	273	279,040	49,491
Dec 31, 2000	274	282,162	49,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	284,969	48,520
Dec 31, 2002	276	287,625	48,074
Dec 31, 2003	278	290,108	47,692
Dec 31, 2004	279	292,805	47,342
Dec 31, 2005	280	295,517	47,003
Dec 31, 2006	281	298,380	46,685
Dec 31, 2007	282	301,231	46,407
Dec 31, 2008	283	304,094	46,156
Dec 31, 2009	285	306,772	45,951
Dec 31, 2010	286	309,327	45,768
Dec 31, 2011	287	311,583	45,604
Dec 31, 2012	288	313,878	45,492
Dec 31, 2013	289	316,060	45,389
Dec 31, 2014	290	318,386	44,944
Dec 31, 2015	291	320,739	44,429
Dec 31, 2016	291	323,072	44,208
Dec 31, 2017	292	325,122	44,029
Dec 31, 2018	293	326,838	43,944
Dec 31, 2019	294	328,330	43,951
Dec 31, 2020	294	331,512	43,904
Dec 31, 2021	295	332,032	43,746
Dec 31, 2022	295	333,288	39,897

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).

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