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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Africa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,257	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	46,958	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,820	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	48,480	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	48,951	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	49,478	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	50,054	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	50,667	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	51,339	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	52,077	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	52,862	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	53,682	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	54,518	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	55,356	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	56,215	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	57,075	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	57,947	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	58,830	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	59,715	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	60,595	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	61,469	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	62,355	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	62,900	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	63,382	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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.