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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Jordan	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,591	273
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,700	274
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,811	275
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,923	276
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	5,037	278
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	5,161	279
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	5,295	280
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	5,765	281
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	6,243	282
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	6,397	283
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	6,538	285
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	6,680	286
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	6,840	287
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	6,952	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	7,706	289
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	8,839	290
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	9,506	291
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	9,863	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	10,066	292
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	10,273	293
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	10,480	294
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	10,628	294
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	10,716	295
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	10,849	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.

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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