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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	South Korea	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	46,617	273
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	47,008	274
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	47,370	275
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	47,645	276
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	47,892	278
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	48,083	279
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	48,185	280
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	48,438	281
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	48,684	282
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	49,055	283
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	49,308	285
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	49,554	286
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	49,937	287
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	50,200	288
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	50,429	289
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	50,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	51,015	291
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	51,218	291
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	51,362	292
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	51,585	293
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	51,765	294
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	51,836	294
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	51,745	295
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	51,731	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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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