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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Barbados	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	273	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	274	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	275	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	276	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	278	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	279	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	280	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	281	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	282	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	283	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	285	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	286	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	287	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	288	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	289	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	290	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	291	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	291	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	292	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	293	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	294	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	294	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	295	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	295	68,093

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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