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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	France	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	60,396	273
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	60,811	274
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	61,255	275
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	61,703	276
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	62,141	278
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	62,600	279
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	63,073	280
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,513	281
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	63,906	282
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	64,264	283
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	64,594	285
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	64,913	286
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	65,231	287
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	65,552	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	65,891	289
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	66,212	290
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	66,480	291
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	66,730	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	67,015	292
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	67,347	293
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	67,660	294
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	67,901	294
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	68,114	295
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	68,387	295

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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