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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Venezuela	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	124,762

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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