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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Venezuela	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	1,349,060

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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