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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Switzerland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	7,258	273
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	7,296	274
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	7,332	275
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	7,384	276
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	7,438	278
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	7,488	279
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	7,532	280
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	7,579	281
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	7,647	282
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	7,738	283
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	7,825	285
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	7,884	286
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	7,959	287
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	8,044	288
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	8,137	289
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	8,237	290
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	8,332	291
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	8,423	291
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	8,502	292
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	8,565	293
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	8,626	294
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	8,689	294
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	8,756	295
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.