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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Russia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	147,218	273
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	146,600	274
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	145,980	275
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	145,310	276
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	144,652	278
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	144,071	279
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	143,522	280
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	143,053	281
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	142,809	282
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	142,746	283
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	142,789	285
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	142,853	286
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	142,964	287
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	143,205	288
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	143,510	289
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	146,094	290
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	146,410	291
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	146,678	291
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	146,846	292
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	146,834	293
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	146,768	294
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	146,463	294
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	145,849	295
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	146,693	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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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