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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Switzerland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	7,258	273
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	7,296	274
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	7,332	275
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	7,384	276
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	7,438	278
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	7,488	279
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	7,532	280
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	7,579	281
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	7,647	282
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	7,738	283
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	7,825	285
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	7,884	286
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	7,959	287
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	8,044	288
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	8,137	289
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	8,237	290
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	8,332	291
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	8,423	291
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	8,502	292
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	8,565	293
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	8,626	294
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	8,689	294
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	8,756	295
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	8,834	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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