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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Israel	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	5,927	273
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	6,088	274
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	6,236	275
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	6,366	276
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	6,484	278
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	6,603	279
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	6,723	280
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	6,846	281
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	6,972	282
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	7,100	283
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	7,226	285
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	7,360	286
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	7,498	287
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	7,637	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	7,781	289
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	7,931	290
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	8,091	291
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	8,251	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	8,412	292
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	8,576	293
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	8,742	294
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	8,899	294
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	9,047	295
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	9,188	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.

Israel

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

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