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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Barbados	China
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	1,401,693

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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