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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mexico	Belgium	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	97,242	10,227	273
Dec 31, 2000	98,403	10,252	274
Dec 31, 2001	99,599	10,288	275
Dec 31, 2002	100,863	10,334	276
Dec 31, 2003	102,132	10,377	278
Dec 31, 2004	103,334	10,422	279
Dec 31, 2005	104,508	10,480	280
Dec 31, 2006	105,738	10,549	281
Dec 31, 2007	107,083	10,627	282
Dec 31, 2008	108,554	10,711	283
Dec 31, 2009	110,061	10,797	285
Dec 31, 2010	111,468	10,897	286
Dec 31, 2011	112,826	11,039	287
Dec 31, 2012	114,163	11,108	288
Dec 31, 2013	115,471	11,160	289
Dec 31, 2014	116,757	11,210	290
Dec 31, 2015	118,017	11,275	291
Dec 31, 2016	117,444	11,332	291
Dec 31, 2017	118,799	11,376	292
Dec 31, 2018	120,289	11,429	293
Dec 31, 2019	121,872	11,491	294
Dec 31, 2020	123,260	11,546	294
Dec 31, 2021	124,462	11,594	295
Dec 31, 2022	125,247	11,695	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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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